Habitats
A place where an animal lives
What is a habitat?
A body part or a behavior that helps an animal survive in its habitat
What is an adaptation?
The name of the adaptation used to describe inactivity or sleeping during the long days of winter
What is hibernation?
The name of the adaptation when an animals moves to another location for food, warmth or to give birth to young
What is migration?
Name an animal that lives in the desert habitat
What is a camel, lizard, snake, roadrunner?
The habitat that consists of oceans and seas.
What is a marine habitat?
The two types of adaptations
What are physical and behavioral?
One thing an animal does to prepare for hibernation
What is to eat a lot of food in the fall or gather food to keep in its nest?
Name an animal that migrates
What are caribou, zebra, wildebeasts, birds, gray whales, and salmon?
The reason gray whales migrate
What is to give birth to their young?
These habitats include deciduous, coniferous and rainforests
What is a forest habitat?
Physical or behavioral adaptation?
Thick layer of blubber to stay warm
What is physical adaptation?
The level an animal's heart rate can fall to during hibernation
What is 10 beats per minute?
The adaptation where an animal's natural color blends in with its surroundings to protect it from danger
What is camouflage?
The reason why animals know where to migrate to
What is instinct?
The habitat that is extremely dry and gets very little water
What is a desert habitat?
Physical or behavioral adaptation?
Playing dead to trick predators
What is behavioral adaptation?
Name an animal that hibernates in the winter
many possible answers
What are bears, squirrels, raccoons, skunks, frogs, toads, turtles, bats, some insects?
Name an animal that can camouflage
What are tigers, prairie dogs, grasshopper, sea turtles, chameleon, arctic fox, snowy owl, butterfly?
What happens to a hibernating animal if its body temperature falls too low
What is it wakes up?
The coldest and driest habitat that is extremely difficult to survive in. It also has the longest winters.
What is the arctic tundra?
Name one adaptation that helps a camel survive in the desert.
What is Pads on its feet, long eyelashes, hump on its back, thick lips?
Name another animal that hibernates in the winter
Many possible answers
What are bears, squirrels, raccoons, skunks, frogs, toads, turtles, some insects?
Why it is helpful for prey to be able to camouflage
What is to hide from predators and not get eaten?
Name one physical adaptation and one behavioral adaptation
Many different possible answers