CLASSIFICATION
ADAPTATIONS
ANIMALS ADAPT TO THE ENVIRONMENT
ANIMALS adapt to environment continued
Physical or Behavioral Adaption?
100
Warm-blooded animal who feeds its babies milk.
What is a mammal.
100
Animals blend in with their surroundings.
What is camouflage.
100
term that describes the ways animals change (in appearance, behavior, movement) to survive in the environment
What is to adaptation (to the environment)
100
Fish use these to breathe
What are gills
100
An arctic hair turns white during winter.
Physical
200
Cold-blooded animal that have scales and breathe with lungs.
What is a snake.
200
Animals that look like a poisonous animal so predators won't attack.
What is mimicry.
200
Adaptation seals and walruses have to survive the arctic waters.
What is blubber.
200
Snowy owls main food source.
Lemmings.
200
A butterfly is striped black and white like a wasp.
Physical, mimicry.
300
Warm blooded animal that lays eggs.
What is a bird.
300
Animals that travel south when winter comes.
What is migration.
300
Adaptation arctic fox has to hunt mice under the snow.
What is excellent hearing, being very still and then jumping high, knowing where north is.
300
The reason belugas are white
They blend in with the ice of the arctic.
300
A deer flashes its white tail and runs from a coyote.
Behavioral.
400
The 5 major types of animals
What are fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals
400
Animals that go into a resting state during the winter.
What is hibernation.
400
Adaptation caribou have to find food in the winter.
Migration.
400
2 ways Polar bears adapt to the cold temperatures in the arctic. (Not blubber)
Lots of fur and black skin to absorb heat.
400
Whale blubber.
Physical.
500
3 characteristics of mammals
What are - breathe using lungs - produce milk to feed their babies - have body hair (or fur) - give birth to live young
500
3 ways animals defend themselves.
What are 1. run 2. fight 3. spray
500
Adaptation that musk oxen have to protect young from predators.
Surround young in a circle, with horns facing predators.
500
What is the narwhal's unique adaptation? What is it used for?
Tusk. Contest between males and for sensing its environment.
500
Killer whales often work together to force fish into restricted areas so each whale can take turns feeding.
Behavioral.
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