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Adaptation
Plant Adaptations
Animal Adaptations
Hiding in Plain Sight
Change Over Time
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Any characteristic that helps an organism survive in its environment.
What is adaptation?
100
This is a movement of animals to find food, reproduce in better conditions, or find less severe climate.
What is migration?
100
Animals have adaptations that help them survive in specific _________.
What is environments?
100
This type of camouflage is when the color of an animal helps it blend in with its background.
What is protective coloration?
100
This is all the members of a single species living in the same geographical area.
What is a population?
200
Adjustments to internal or external physical structures.
What is structural adaptations?
200
Animals such as bats, snakes, and frogs do this to escape cold weather.
What is hibernate?
200
This adaptation allows animals to live in extremely cold climates.
What is fur?
200
Any color, shape, or patterns that allows an organism to blend in with its environment is called ________.
What is camouflage?
200
This is the differences among members of the same species and it results from changes in an organism's genetic material.
What is variation?
300
An adjustment in an organisms behavior.
What is behavioral adaptation?
300
The storage organ in an orchid that helps it hold extra water.
What is pseudobulb?
300
Desert animals are often ________ or active at night.
What is nocturnal?
300
Matching the color, shape, and texture of an environment.
What is protective resemblance?
300
Charles Darwin's theory is known as this.
What is natural selection?
400
Fur color and the ability to run fast are an example of this.
What is structural adaptation?
400
The type of leaves orchids have that help them adapt to constant wet conditions.
What is drip-tip leaf?
400
An adaptation in which an animal resembles an unpleasant animal.
What is mimicry?
400
Scientists know that environments and organisms change because the history can be found in this.
What are fossils?
500
A pack of wolves living together is an example of this type of adaptation.
What is behavioral adaptation?
500
This plant has shallow roots to help it quickly soak up rain.
What is cactus?
500
Come animals use this to avoid being caught. A skunk would be an example.
What are chemicals?
500
This animal resembles a branch or tree and is an example of protective resemblance.
What is a walking stick?
500
Earth's history is marked by these two things
What are geographical and climate changes?