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Physical/Behavioral Adaptations
Internal/External Structures
Instincts/Learned Behaviors
Adapting to a New Environment
Other
100
Some animals blend in with their surroundings.
What is Camouflage?
100
Some part of an animal's body, such as the size or shape of the teeth.
What are structural adaptations?
100
It is a seasonal or periodic movement of species.
What is migration?
100
Anything that helps an organism to survive.
What is an adaptation.
100
We can classify adaptations into two categories.
What is physical and behavioural adaptation?
200
An elephant uses this to clean itself, eat, and to pick up things.
What is elephant's trunk?
200
Hair, scales, spines, and feathers grow from the skin.
What are body coverings?
200
A rapid and unconscious response.
What is reflex?
200
Animals that warm their bodies mainly from their own metabolism.
What are Endotherms?
300
This is reduced metabolism for living in extreme heat or to drought or lack of food.
What is estivation?
300
External Structure
What are body structures located on the outside of the body?
300
Venom, ink, and sprays are used by animals to threaten or warn its predators.
What is chemical defence?
300
Animals that warm their bodies by absorbing heat from their surroundings.
What are Ectotherms?
400
The viceroy butterfly uses this to look like the Monarch butterfly.
What is mimicry?
400
This structure allows fish breath under water.
What are gills?
400
It is a state in which body temperature drops, oxygen consumption and breathing rate drops.
What is Hibernation?
400
Maintenance of constant internal conditions in the face of a varying external environment.
What is Homeostasis?
500
A type of adaptation in which an animal can change its colour.
What is Camouflage?
500
This adaptation allows birds to fly faster and use less energy.
What are hollow bones?
500
It is reduced metabolism for living in extreme heat, drought or lack of food.
What is Estivation?