Adaptations

Structural Adaptations

100

The physical internal or external plant and animal structures that help the organism survive.

What is a structural or physical adaptation?

200

Explain how a polar bear's thick fur helps it survive.

It's fur keeps it warm and the color of its fur helps it blend in with its surroundings.

300

Select the structural adaptation: A group of animals travels together in a large pack OR A hummingbird has a long, thin bill

A hummingbird has a long, thin bill

400

Select the structural adaptation: Giraffes have long necks that allow them to eat leaves in tall trees OR A bear hibernates in the winter

Giraffes have long necks that allow them to eat leaves in tall trees

500

Name two structural adaptations on a cactus and explain how each helps the cactus survive.

1. Thorns prevent predators from destroying the cactus. 2. The thick, waxy stem hold large amounts of water in the desert environment, allowing the plant to have adequate water even when rainfall is infrequent.

Behavioral Adaptations

100

The ways a particular animal behaves (or the things the animal does) in order to survive in its natural habitat.

What is a behavioral adaptation?

200

A behavioral adaptation in which animals move seasonally to a place where there is more food and a more suitable climate.

What is migration/

300

A behavioral adaptation in which an animal passes winter, or part of winter, in a state of deep sleep to avoid a lack of food and an unfavorable climate.

What is hibernation?

400

Select the behavioral adaptation: A lizard plays dead to avoid predators OR bird's have wings that allow them to fly from predators

A lizard plays dead to avoid predators

500

Name at least 3 adaptations (structural or behavioral) a land animal that is a carnivore living in a cold climate might have.

1. Thick fur 2. Protective coloration to hide from prey 3. Sharp teeth to eat prey 4. The animal may hibernate in the winter, especially if its prey migrates 5. Travel in packs to hunt more efficiently

Learned Behavior vs. Instinct

100

Behaviors that an animal learns through observation or experience. These behaviors help the organism survive.

What is a learned behavior?

200

A natural behavior an animal can perform from birth. They do not need to learn the behavior.

What is instinct?

300

Learned behavior or instinct? A bird building a nest

Instinct

400

Learned behavior or instinct? Loggerhead turtles traveling to the sea and swimming immediately after hatching from their eggs in the sand.

Instinct

500

Learned behavior or instinct? A horse pulling a plow.

Learned behavior

Camouflage

100

A structural adaptation that allows an animal to blend in with its environment due to having the same color, shape and/or texture as its surroundings.

What is camouflage?

200

What is protective coloration?

A type of camouflage in which the organism's color helps it blend into its environment, making it hard to be seen by predators or prey.

300

What is protective resemblance?

A type of camouflage in which the organism blends in to the environment by perfectly matching the color, texture, and shape of something else in the environment.

400

Protective coloration or protective resemblance? A praying mantis

protective resemblance

500

Protective coloration or protective resemblance? A snow owl

protective coloration

Miscellaneous

100

An adaptation in which a weaker animal copies a stronger animals' characteristics to avoid predators.

What is mimicry?

200

Name an organism that uses mimicry to survive

Ex. viceroy butterfly, King snake, non-venemos frogs

300

Why would a predator need camouflage?

Camouflage allows predators to sneak up on prey.

400

Owls have excellent hearing, which helps them hunt. This would be an example of a _________________________ adaptation.

structural

500

What happens to an organism if their environment changes? Give an example.

If organisms cannot adapt they die. Examples vary.