Vocabulary
Inborn complex behavior pattern
What is instinct?
One function of physical adaptation where animals with warning coloration like large eyespots or bright colors warn off predators that otherwise might eat them
What is protection?
The benefits of social behavior for a species
Social insects form colonies where the individual members have specific jobs to do, such as finding food or defense. Carnivores from social groups to hunt prey. Other animals use social behavior to care for their young, watch out for danger, and migrate safely.
The adaptation the swallow butterfly caterpillar uses to avoid predators
Modified leaves
What is the structure carnivorous plants use to obtain nutrients in poor soil?
Plant responses to a stimulus
What is tropism?
One function of physical adaptation in which animals that use complex adaptations for flight, gliding, or running escape from predators
What is flight or escape?
Explain why some animals, such as Arctic terns, travel great distances every year. What signals do they use?
Migration in large groups increase their chance of survival when temperatures drop, food resources dwindle, and daylight hours decrease. They use clue provided by patterns of sunlight, magnetism, sights, and smells to navigate their way over migration routes.
The adaptation the mosquito has to feed on blood
Piercing mouthparts
A sensitive plant's response to touch
What is thigmotropism?
Structure or behavior that helps an organism survive
What is adaptation?
One type of function that includes insect mouth parts
What is a special adaptation for feeding?
How is a habit, such as biting your nails. different from a reflex?
You had to learn how to bite your nails and a reflex is not learned.
This type of mimicry adaptation in plants increases the chance of pollination
social behavior
Timing of biological functions by 24-hr clock
One type of function that involves bird beaks
What is a special adaptation for feeding?
How might an insect without a stinger benefit from yellow and black coloring?
The insect looks like a bee or wasp. Other insects and animals may avoid the insect to avoid being stung. This allows the stinger-less insect to survive.
The definition of adaptation
What is any structure, function, and behavior that helps an organism survive and reproduce
innate behavior
What is behavior that is inborn that an animal knows how to do without being taught?
Resting state that helps animals to survive dry conditions
What is estivation?
Large eyespots or bright colors
What are physical adaptations that serve as special function that helps protect animals?
Give two examples of mimicry
The swallowtail butterfly caterpillar and The mimic octopus changing color, shape, and behavior to act like other animals
A special structure or design of an animal or plant part that helps it survive in its habitat
What is physical adaptation?
instinctual behavior
What is a type of behavior that involves abilities that are inherited from parents?