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Structural and Behavioral Adaptations
Adaptations for Water/Land
Adaptations for Climate
Variations
Fossils
100
Inherited physical or behavioral traits that help organisms meet their needs and survive in their environment.
What are adaptations?
100
A sea animal that can shoot water out of its body through a short funnel to escape danger.
What is an octopus?
100
This adaptation for cold climates helps an animal keep their body temperature about the same at all times.
What is a fat layer?
100
Differences in physical appearance or behavior within a single species.
What are variations?
100
Any remains or traces of an organism that was once alive.
What is a fossil?
200
Physical traits such as body parts or coloring that help a plant or animal survive in its environment.
What are structural adaptations?
200
These allow sea plants to float near the surface of the ocean where they can get plenty of sunlight.
What are floats?
200
This type of plant has a waxy covering and stores water in its stem to adapt to the scarcity of water in the desert.
What is a cactus?
200
Change in a gene that produce a new trait and may result in a new variation in a species.
What is a mutation?
200
A fossil that is a hollow place shaped like an organism.
What is a mold?
300
Inherited behaviors that help an animal survive in its environment. These traits are instinctual not learned.
What are behavioral adaptations?
300
This adaptation allows fish to absorb oxygen from the water and release carbon dioxide from their blood.
What are gills?
300
This adaptation for seasonal change allows some animals to avoid the cold climate altogether.
What is migration?
300
This determines whether variations are helpful to a species or not.
What are environmental conditions?
300
A fossil formed by sediments filling up a mold and hardening.
What is a cast?
400
An adaptation in which one species resembles another to fool enemies into thinking it is dangerous.
What is mimicry?
400
This adaptation helps animals support their body, maintain their shape and protect internal organs.
What is a skeleton?
400
This adaptation for seasonal change drastically reduces the animal's metabolic rate to conserve energy.
What is hibernation?
400
This organism adapted to the pollution during the Industrial Revolution in England by changing its color.
What is a peppered moth?
400
A fossil formed when minerals slowly replace some or all of an organism turning it to stone.
What is a petrified fossil?
500
The colorful feathers of a male peacock are an example of this type of adaptation.
What is a structural adaptation?
500
This adaptation helps plants anchor themselves in the ground and take in water and nutrients.
What are roots?
500
This adaptation for hot, dry climates allows plants to only produce seeds during the brief rainy season when plenty of water is available.
What is a short life cycle?
500
Wooly mammoths could not adapt to this change which may explain why they became extinct.
What is a warmer climate?
500
An animal that scientists discovered preserved in a glacier for over 10,000 years.
What is a baby wooly mammoth?