Vocabulary
This vocabulary word means "to spend the winter in a deep sleep."
What is hibernate?
A woodpecker has a sharp beak for drilling holes.
What is physical?
Baby turtles move to the ocean when they hatch.
What is instinctive?
Give an example of an animal that uses camouflage.
What are lizards, snakes, zebras, octopus, etc.
An animal that is taken and eaten by another animal for food.
What is prey?
Binomial Nominclature is using these 2 groups to give a scientific name to all living things.
What is Genus and species?
When the color of an animal changes to look like its surrounding.
What is camouflage?
Polar bears have thick fur to keep them warm.
What is physical?
A dog hears a bell and comes for food.
What is learned?
This group has a tremendous amount of structural adaptation on their bodies including hollow bones and excellent eyesight.
What are birds?
A change made to a part of the body that helps it survive in its habitat.
What is a physical adaptation?
The major feature of a vertebrate.
What is a backbone?
The movement of animals from one place to another in response to seasonal changes.
What is migration?
Birds migrate in winter to get food.
What is behavioral?
A bear hibernates during the winter.
What is instinctive?
An animal that can not maintain its body temperature and must rely on its environment to regulate it.
What is ectothermic (cold-blooded)?
An animal that hunts and eats other animals.
What is a predator?
Type of livng being that maintains its own body temperature.
What is endothermic? (warm-blooded)
This vocabulary word means a physical or behavioral characteristic that has developed to help an organism survive in its environment.
What is an adaptation?
A lizard uses camouflage to avoid predators.
What is physical?
A dog shakes his paws with you.
What is learned?
Behaviors taught through observation.
What are learned behaviors?
A behavior in which newborn animals recognize and follow the first moving object they see.
What is imprinting?
These are cold-blooded animals that possess backbones. They spend time both in water and on land. Their larvae or young mature in water and breathe through gills, like fish, while adults breathe air through lungs and skin.
What are amphibians?
Looking or sounding like other living organisms.
What is mimicry?
A bird builds a nest to lay eggs.
What is behavioral?
A baby cheetah watches her mother sneak up on their prey. After watching, the baby does the same.
What is learned?
DAILY DOUBLE
A learned behavior that results from positive reinforcement to certain stimuli.
What is Classic Conditioning?
Behaviors that happen naturally.
What is instinctive Behavior?
Having an exoskeleton, jointed legs, antennae, specialized eyes, mandibles/pincers, and wings are all adaptations of this group that makes up 95% of all livng things.
What are Arthopods?