Adaptations

Structural Adaptations

100

What is a structural adaptation?

The physical internal or external plant and animal structures that help the organism survive.

200

Explain how a polar bear's thick fur helps it survive.

It's fur keeps it warm and the color of its fur helps it blend in with its surroundings.

300

Select the structural adaptation: A group of animals travels together in a large pack OR A hummingbird has a long, thin bill

A hummingbird has a long, thin bill

400

Select the structural adaptation: Giraffes have long necks that allow them to eat leaves in tall trees OR A bear hibernates in the winter

Giraffes have long necks that allow them to eat leaves in tall trees

500

Name two structural adaptations on a cactus and explain how each helps the cactus survive.

1. Thorns prevent predators from destroying the cactus. 2. The thick, waxy stem hold large amounts of water in the desert environment, allowing the plant to have adequate water even when rainfall is infrequent.

Behavioral Adaptations

100

What is a behavioral adaptation?

The ways a particular animal behaves (or the things the animal does) in order to survive in its natural habitat.

200

What is migration?

A behavioral adaptation in which animals move seasonally to a place where there is more food and a more suitable climate.

300

What is hibernation?

A behavioral adaptation in which an animal passes winter, or part of winter, in a state of deep sleep to avoid a lack of food and an unfavorable climate.

400

Select the behavioral adaptation: A lizard plays dead to avoid predators OR bird's have wings that allow them to fly from predators

A lizard plays dead to avoid predators

500

Name at least 3 adaptations (structural or behavioral) a land animal that is a carnivore living in a cold climate might have.

1. Thick fur 2. Protective coloration to hide from prey 3. Sharp teeth to eat prey 4. The animal may hibernate in the winter, especially if its prey migrates 5. Travel in packs to hunt more efficiently

Learned Behaviour vs. Instinct

100

What is a learned behavior?

Behaviors that an animal learns through observation or experience. These behaviors help the organism survive.

200

What is instinct?

A natural behavior an animal can perform from birth. They do not need to learn the behavior.

300

Learned behavior or instinct? A bird building a nest

Instinct

400

Learned behavior or instinct? Loggerhead turtles traveling to the sea and swimming immediately after hatching from their eggs in the sand.

Instinct

500

Learned behavior or instinct? A horse pulling a plow.

Learned behavior

Vocabulary

100

What is the characteristic when an animal blends in with the surrounding environment?

Camouflage

200

A living thing, such as a person or plant

Organism

300

A natural response of an animal to aid survival. Often an internal trait, such as venom or molting

Physiological Adaptation

400

An animal at the very top of the food chain. It has no natural predator.

Apex Predator

500

The role an organism plays in its environment

Niche

Dinosaurs rawr

100

Many dino species moved in herds, providing protection against predators. 

What type of adaptation is that?

Behavioural

200

Why would a brachiosaur have a long neck, but a stegosaurus have a short one?

Specialised for certain vegetation so there is no competition.

300

Aside from possibly feathers, name 1 characteristic that a theropod (eg t-rex) and modern birds share AND how this adaptation is an advantage.

Hollow bones - light for flying, or light becuase they were huge

3 toes - grippy 

upright on 2 legs - speed, vision

400

Stegosaurus was a super chill herbivore. Why did T-rex never eat them despite being an easy catch?

The lived on Earth about 60milion years apart

500

Dinos died out when a meteor event caused a massive extinctions. What key adaptation would have helped them to survive this - ie what was a characteristic of the organisims that DID survive?

Be small, with low food needs.