Environments
An animals living area
What is a habitat?
Animals change to suit its new habitat
When an animal loses its winter coat.
What is to shed?
Tiny sea animals whales feed on
What are krill?
Grasslands of Africa
What is the Savannah?
A particular type of animal.
What is species?
Extra fur is grown by animals to do what during the cold winter?
What is insulate?
Thick layer of fat that keeps animals warm in cold climates
What is blubber?
Weather conditions in an area over a long period of time
What is Climate?
A species that no longer exists.
What is extinct?
Some animal species have learned to store extra food for the times when it is not easily available, called what?
What is hoard?
A cold habitat in the arctic
What is the Tundra?
An animals descendants (or past relatives)
What are ancestors?
A deep sleep animals go into during winter.
What is hibernation?
A type of desert adaption similar to hibernating that involves a deep sleep to escape hot conditions
What is to estivate?
The process during which the body of an animal changes slowly over time
What is evolution?
Traveling from one place to another when the seasons change
What is migration?
What is a skein?