Vocabulary
Activities and actions of an animal
What are behaviors?
An adaptation in which an animal looks like a dangerous or poisonous animal.
What is mimicry?
What is the relationship between a frog and a fly?
What is predator to prey?
To find food and a warmer/colder climate.
What are two reasons animals migrate?
Fur color, tongues, and teeth are examples that help animals survive in their environment.
What are structural adaptations?
An adaptation in which an animal looks like something in its environment. An example is the stick bug.
What is Protective Resemblance?
A period when an animal goes into a long, deep "sleep" when it is cold.
What is hibernation?
Why do animals need to adapt?
What is in order to survive?
A trait that you received from your parents when you are born - blinking is an example
What is innate (instinct) behaviors?
The artic fox turning white in the winter is an example of this structural adaptation.
What is Protective Coloration or Camouflage?
A transfer of a signal from one animal to another that results in some type of response is known as:
What is communication?
Migrating is this type of behavior.
What is instinctive, innate or seasonal behavior?
What are the 5 characteristics that make an animal an animal?
What are they must have all 5: multicellular, consumer, locomotion, reproduce, and specialized parts.
A structural adaptation in which an animal has a color similar to that of the environment.
What is Protective Coloration? (camouflage)
The flat teeth found along the sides of the mouth.
What are molars?
A lion teaching its cub to hunt is an example of what survival behavior:
What is parenting
Two ways an animal prepares for hibernation.
What is eating extra food and finding shelter?
In the Classification of Living Things Chart name each category.
What is Kingdom, Phylum, Class, Order, Family, Genus, Species?
To stay alive, an animal must avoid being eaten, find food, water and shelter. What type of behavior is this?
What is Survival Behavior?
Sharp front teeth used by meat eating animals used to tear chunks of flesh.
What are incisors?
Behaviors that help animals adjust to their environment are known as:
What are seasonal behaviors?
The reason an animal needs little or no food.
What is drop in body temperature, breathing and heart rate?
In the Classification of Living Things chart, which category contains the most organisms and is very general:
What is Kingdom?