Staying Alive
What is adaptation?
Adaptation is any trait that helps a living thing survive.
What is meant by the term mimicry?
Some harmless animals look a lot like animals that are harmful to the predators or tastes bad. Mimicry is to act like something else.
What is the meaning of behavior?
What is the meaning of hibernation?
Hibernation: animals go into a deep, sleeplike state that helps them to survive the cold winter conditions.
Why do animals migrate?
a. to mate
b. too give birth
c. to find food
d. all of the above
d. All of the above
Its teeth are flat so it allows it to grind grass.
What is meant by camouflage?
What the meaning of instinct behavior?
Instinct behavior is a behavior an animals knows without learning it.
Their bodies heart rate slows down and their breathing almost stops.
How does camouflage help protect animals from their predators?
If an animal blends into the environment, the predators can't see the animal so it won't think to eat it.
How does a tigers teeth help it adapt?
Monarch butterfly acts like it is the viceroy butterfly, becuase the viceroy butterfly doesn't taste well. This is an example of ________.
a. Camouflage
b. Mimicry
Mimicry
What is the meaning of learned behavior?
Learned behavior are behaviors that come from watching other animals or through experience.
What do the animals do before they hibernate?
A spider's web helps it to survive. This is an example of ____________ behavior?
a. learned
b. instinct
Instinct
Rabbits live in many different places. Some rabbits live in cold places like the arctic. How does its ears help it survive?
It has short ears, less heat escapes. It keeps the rabbit warm.
When a lion is hiding between the grass, to hunt its prey. This is an example of ________.
a. camouflage
b. mimicry
Camouflage
A mother loin is teaching her cubs to hunt food is an example of _________ behavior.
a. learned
b. instinct
Learned behavior
What is the definition of migration?
Animals move a long distance as a group from one place to another and back.
Name an animal and 1 behavioral adaptation and 1 structural adaptation.
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