Physical Adaptations
Physical adaptations that keeps an animal in the Arctic warm.
What is blubber or thick fur?
The meaning of increase.
What is going up?
This bird adaptation allows birds to eat specific foods that other birds may not be able to.
What is a beak?
The life cycle of a frog allows it to do this.
What is expanding its food-browsing range?
Physical or Behavioral:
A turtle hatchling has an instinct to crawl towards the moonlight into the ocean.
What is a behavioral adaptation?
BONUS: Tell the type.
Physical adaptations for plants in a dry environment.
What is a thick waxy coating?
What are spines or needles?
The meaning of decrease.
What is going down?
This behavioral adaptation changes for Florida and Washington animals depending on the temperature.
BONUS: Tell the difference of temperature and why animals respond this way.
What is hibernation?
What is migration?
What is dormancy?
BONUS: Washington experiences freezing temperatures; Florida does not.
Freezing temperatures causes all living things to freeze and for leaves to fall off trees leaving no food.
This adaptation from its life cycle, allows a frog to find food on land.
What are lungs?
Physical or Behavioral:
A mockingbird uses mimicry by copying the call of another bird to deter a predator.
What is a Behavioral Adaptation?
This physical adaptation on a plant allows the plant to control the amount of water it receives.
What is the leaf structure/shape/design/type?
The meaning of advantage.
What is a benefit/more favorable position?
Tell the story of the peppered moth.
What is a light colored moth that blended in its environment but then became near extinction because trees were covered by soot from a nearby factory allowing dark colored moths to camouflage, leaving light colored moths out in the open to be eaten?
A life cycle with only 3 stages.
What is incomplete metamorphosis?
Physical or Behavioral:
A dog fetching a ball.
What is a Behavioral adaptation?
BONUS: Tell the type.
This physical adaptation on a plant changes depending on the amount of sunlight the plant gets.
BONUS: Tell 2 different examples and why it occurs.
What is leaf size?
Define hibernation.
What is a sleeping or resting period for animals that allow them to conserve energy over the winter?
This physical adaptation allows the Arctic Hare and Cottontail rabbit to survive in their environment.
BONUS: Tell how.
What is Camouflage?
BONUS: Arctic Hare has white fur to blend into the Arctic snow; Cottontail rabbit has brown fur to blend into dirt and tree branches in southern areas.
A life cycle with 4 stages.
What is complete metamorphosis?
Physical or Behavioral:
A cactus has spines to protect the water in its stem.
What is a physical adaptation?
A tree may adapt by blocking salt from entering its roots if it lives near this.
What is the ocean?
Define migration.
What is a behavioral adaptation where animals fly south for warmer weather?
If a glacier was brought to Florida on the coldest winter day, why wouldn't it survive?
What is Florida winters are not long or cold enough?
List or draw the correct order of a complete and incomplete metamorphosis.
Complete: Egg, larva, pupa, adult
Incomplete: Egg, nymph, adult
A possum playing dead.
What is a behavioral adaptation?