Vocabulary
Adaptations
Animal Adaptations
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
100
A body part or a behavior that helps a living thing survive in its environment.
What is adaptation?
100

Name 2 structural adaptions that help a dolphin move through water

What are streamlined body and a tail to push water

100

This habitat has wet soggy ground half of the year.

What is wetland habitat?

100
To go into a deep sleep during cold months when food is hard to find.
What is hibernate?
100
This land animal has sharp quills or spines to protect itself from predators.

What is a porcupine?

200

A plant that gets some of its food by trapping and eating insects and other small animals

What is a carnivorous plant?

200

Name the adaptation that a cactus plant uses for protection.

What are sharp thorns?

200

A salamander 's skin blends in with mud, leaves, and logs. This is an example of what type of adaptation?

What is camouflage?

200
The coloring, markings, or other physical features of an animal that help it blend with its surroundings
What is camouflage?
200

basic needs of all organisms needed to survive

What is air, food, shelter?

300
The way that a plant or an animal acts.
What is behavior?
300

Name a physical adaptation that help a shark get its food.

what are sharp teeth and strong jaw?

300

The animal that uses a tail shaped like a paddle as an adaptation to help them swim.

What is the American beaver?

300
To move to warmer regions during cold months when food becomes scarce.
What is migrate?
300

An animal that hunts or eats other animals for food

What is predator?

400

A lightweight body and large surface area are examples of structural adaptations of what type of animal 

and how do they help that organism adapt?

What a bird, butterfly, dragon fly

help it fly

400

This adaptation helps the camel store fat tissues so when there is not enough food the fat is metabolized to provide energy.

What is the hump?

400

Structural adaptations can help animals..... name all 5

What are get food, move, breathe, survive extreme temperatures and protect itself

400
Any animal that is hunted food by another animal.
What is prey?
400
All the living and non-living things that surround an organism.
What is the environment?
500

Strong legs, extra limbs and strong muscles are examples of how organisms move on....

What is land?

500

Gills are an example of .....

How organisms breathe underwater

500

Describe the climate of a temperate forest

Cold winters, warm summers. 

500

Name 3 adaptations an organism needs to survive the Polar habitats?

thick fur

thick blubber or fat

Strong swimmers

camouflague

500

This habitat has few trees, lots of grass and is very warm. 

Give an example of where you would find this habitat

Grassland habitat