Staying Alive
What is adaptation?
Adaptation is any trait that helps a living thing survive.
How do animals use defense adaptation to stay alive?
An animal may attack a predator's sense of sight, smell, taste, or hearing.
What is meant by the term mimicry?
Some harmless animals look a lot like animals that are harmful to the predators or tastes bad. Mimicry is to act like something else.
What is the meaning of behavior?
What is the meaning of hibernation?
Hibernation: animals go into a deep, sleeplike state that helps them to survive the cold winter conditions.
Its teeth are flat so it allows it to grind grass.
Which animals uses it quills to attack a predator?
a. skunk
b. porcupine
Porcupine
What is meant by camouflage?
What the meaning of instinct behavior?
Instinct behavior is a behavior an animals knows without learning it.
Their bodies heart rate slows down and their breathing almost stops.
How does a tigers teeth help it adapt?
Which animal eats milkweed to make birds sick?
a. lizard
b. caterpillar
Caterpillar
Monarch butterfly acts like it is the viceroy butterfly, becuase the viceroy butterfly doesn't taste well. This is an example of ________.
a. Camouflage
b. Mimicry
Mimicry
What is the meaning of learned behavior?
Learned behavior are behaviors that come from watching other animals or through experience.
What do the animals do before they hibernate?
Rabbits live in many different places. Some rabbits live in cold places like the arctic. How does its ears help it survive?
It has short ears, less heat escapes. It keeps the rabbit warm.
What is the adaptation for plants in a desert?
To hold moisture.
When a lion is hiding between the grass, to hunt its prey. This is an example of ________.
a. camouflage
b. mimicry
Camouflage
A mother loin is teaching her cubs to hunt food is an example of _________ behavior.
a. learned
b. instinct
Learned behavior
What is the definition of migration?
Animals move a long distance as a group from one place to another and back.
Rabbits live in many different places. Some rabbits live in warm places like the desert. How does its ears help it survive?
How does the pitcher plant adapt?
The pitcher plant holds water and traps insects for food.
How does camouflage help protect animals from their predators?
A spider's web helps it to survive. This is an example of ____________ behavior?
a. learned
b. instinct
Instinct
Why do animals migrate?
a. to mate
b. too give birth
c. to find food
d. all of the above
All the above.