Protection
Shelter
Food
Vocabulary
Examples
100
The adaptation that helps animals blend in with their background so their predators cannot see them.
What is camouflage?
100
The place where meadowlarks learned to build their nests because there are not many trees on the prairie
What is in the grass/on the ground
100
The type of teeth meat-eaters have
What is sharp and pointy
100
Changes in plants or animals that help them survive in their environment
What is adaptation
100
Many birds fly south for the winter
What is migration
200
Skunks use this to scare off their predators.
What is odor
200
This adaptation helps prairie dogs dig their burrows
What is claws
200
The type of teeth plant-eaters have for grinding food
What is broad and flat
200
"winter-sleep" where an animal's heart rate and breathing slow and their temperature decreases
What is hibernation
200
Bears sleep all winter
What is hibernation
300
This adaptation warns predators that an animal is either poisonous or will taste bad.
What is bright colors?
300
This adaptation allows burrowing owls the ability to lay low while peeking out of their holes
What is flat head
300
Many birds have this adaptation to help them locate food on the ground when they are high in the sky
What is good eyesight
300
The seasonal movement of animals to new places in order to find food and shelter
What is migration
300
The viceroy pretends to be a monarch butterfly so that birds won't eat it.
What is mimicry
400
Beavers do this to warn others that danger is near
What is smacking their tails on the water
400
This adaptation helps a spider spin a web
What is spinning silk
400
An adaptation that helps some animals carry food to their shelter
What are face pockets
400
The effect of a stimulus. How an animal reacts.
What is response
400
The stimulus that causes skunks to spray their odor
What is the presence of a predator or attack from an enemy
500
Some animals use this adaptation to scare off their predators by pretending to be another animal.
What is mimicry
500
Beavers have these 3 adaptations for building shelter
What is their teeth, holding their breath for a long time, and their tail
500
The adaptation that enables a snake to eat a large animal
What is an unhingable jaw
500
The cause of a reponse
What is stimulus
500
An armor-plated armadillo's response when a predator attacks
What is rolling up into a ball
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