Adaptations
A characteristic or trait that helps an animal to survive.
What is an adaptation?
This resource is most important in the hot dry desert.
What is water?
Rain is also acceptable.
This resource is very plentiful in the rainforest. One explanation for the many various forms of life.
What is water/rain?
This behavior allows animals to survive our cold winters.
What is hibernation?
This animal would be found in North America, most likely climbing in a tree eating bugs off their fur coat.
Who is Daisy?
Communication & opposable thumbs helped these animals to survive.
Who are humans?
This is the location that determines what adaptations will be successful.
What is the environment?
These structures on a reptile's body help to prevent water loss.
Scales
This word is used to describe a tail which animals are still able to flex and move.
What is prehensile?
A racoon which eats fish, berries, frogs, plants is this type of consumer.
What is an omnivore?
This animal is no longer found in the wild due to humans and the East India Trading Company.
Who is Howard?
This term describes an animal's population that is rapidly declining.
What is endangered/critically endangered?
This occurs when an animal is unable to adapt to it's environment.
What is death/extinction?
This animal behavior allows them to escape the hottest part of the day.
What is a nocturnal animal?
Dooley is this type of lizard.
What is a monkey tail skink, Zebra Skink, and or the Solomon Island Skink
This animal behavior allows animals to escape our long cold winters.
What is migration?
This animal will bite their prey and suffocate them under the sand.
Who is Alistar?
This rodent is an excellent engineer. It's adaptive behavior could really get you into some deep water.
What is a beaver?
This is a learned action typically demonstrated by parental figures.
What is a behavior?
These structures of a Bactrian camel help it store a food supply for times where food is scarce.
What are humps?
This is the greatest threat to the rainforest.
What is deforestation?
Removal of trees, clear cutting for resources.
Any human activity.
Animals use this to hide in their environment.
What is camouflage?
These living things make quite a bit of noise. Not with their mouth but with their spiracles.
Who are the hissing cockroaches?
This animal survives mostly due to looking and acting like another animal. Don't let his classy name fool you, he is just a successful bluffer.
Who is Winston the Blue Tongue Skink?
Animals receive their characteristics and traits from these.
What are the parents?
Genes & DNA
This material makes up a reptile's scales, it also makes up our hair and nails.
What is keratin?
These animals can have 200-400 vertebrate, humans only have 33.
What are snakes?
Animals such as wolves, utilize this adaptive hunting behavior.
What is hunting in a pack/group?
This animal most likely has a genetic mutation which changes her gene expression from her brother. It might not be a benefit to her survival if in the wild.
Who is Marshmellow?
This animal is the albino animal found in our reptile hall. What type of animal is this?
Points awarded for the right species of snake
What is a Burmese Python?
Her name is "Spot"