What do you call a place where animals are protected from weather and predators?
Shelter
100
What do you call the important gas in the air that animals need to live?
Oxygen
100
Name a body part of a bird that is an example of an adaptation.
Beak, bones, feet, feathers, etc.
100
Name an example of an animal that migrates.
Whales, green turtles, birds, monarch butterflies, salmon, etc.
100
Name an animal that goes through metamorphosis.
Butterfly, moth, frog, toad, ladybug, mosquito, etc.
200
Everything around an animal including other animals and plants is called its what?
Environment
200
What do you call the average temperature and rainfall of an area over time?
Climate
200
The snowshoe hare that is white in winter and then turns brown during summer is an example of an animal with what adaptation?
Camouflage
200
What do animals do to prepare for hibernation?
By eating extra food and finding shelter
200
Name an animal that does NOT go through metamorphosis.
All birds, fish, reptiles, and mammals.
300
What do you call it when an animal's color or pattern helps it blend in with its surroundings?
Camouflage
300
What do you call the period of long, deep sleep some animals experience?
Hibernation
300
A walking stick is an example of an animal with what adaptation?
Mimicry
300
What kind of climate do animals that hibernate in and migrate from live in?
Very cold
300
How are migration and hibernation DIFFERENT?
In hibernation the animal’s body changes by going into deep sleep and in migration the animal moves to a different climate.
400
What do you call the movement of a group of one kind of animal from one region to another and then back again?
Migration
400
What is it called when an animal looks very much like another animal or object?
Mimicry
400
Name an example of a body covering that is an adaptation that helps an animal survive.
Feathers, fur, hair/spines, scales, whiskers, etc.
400
Give an example of a learned behavior of an animal (you need to say both the animal and what it can learn).
Dogs can be trained to do many tricks, lion/tiger cubs learn how to hunt, chimps learn meanings of sounds and how to build a nest and how to crack open nut with a stone, etc.
400
Why might an animal NOT survive if it is moved out of its natural environment?
Animals have adaptations to help them survive in a specific environment, and these adaptations might not help them or might harm them in different environments, for example a polar bear with thick fur and blubber to keep itself warm in the arctic might die of heat in a desert.
500
What do you call a behavior that does NOT have to be learned?
Instinct
500
What do you call something that helps an animal meet its needs in its environment?
Adaptation
500
How are birds' bones specially adapted to help them survive?
They are hollow
500
Give an example of an instinct.
Migration, hibernation, baby koala crawling to mom’s pouch, baby mammals knowing how to drink milk, etc.
500
How are migration and hibernation similar?
They are both adaptations to a climate change, both happen in a cold climate, both help the animal survive, etc.