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Behavioral Adaptations
Physical Adaptations
Body systems
Basic Needs
Animal Potpourri
100
When an animals acts like another animal.
What is mimicry
100
Name 3 behavioral adaptations
Answers may vary (i.e. webbed feet, sharp teeth, sharp claws, thick fur, long tongue, flat teeth, types of bird beaks)
100
The body system that circulates blood through the body.
What is the circulatory system.
100
These are the basic needs of all animals.
What are food, water, shelter (or safe home), oxygen, and climate.
100
Animals that eat both plants and other animals.
What is an omnivore.
200
When an animal blends in with its environment
What is camouflage
200
An animal has these types of teeth in order to eat plants.
What are flat teeth
200
The body system that controls all of the other body systems and our bodies.
What is the nervous system.
200
These are the two things that make up shelter or safe home.
What are space and cover.
200
The type of metamorphosis where no life stage is the same as any of the other life stages.
What is complete metamorphosis. (for example: larvae, caterpillar, cocoon, butterfly)
300
When an animals travels a long distance for a more suitable climate or for mating.
What is migration
300
Birds have different types of these depending on the food that they eat.
What are beaks.
300
The body system that takes in oxygen for our bodies.
What is the respiratory system.
300
Having sharp teeth is an adaptation that helps an animal meet this need.
What is food.
300
The missing part of the life cycle of an animal: fertilized egg --> baby --> matures --> _______ --> ...
What is reproduction.
400
When an animal gathers food and then goes into a deep sleep for an extended period of time
What is hibernation
400
This physical adaptation is often found on polar bears and other arctic animals to keep them warm.
What is thick fur.
400
The body system that gives our bodies structure and protects important organs.
What is the skeletal system.
400
This is what plants breathe out and is useful for animals because they breathe it in.
What is oxygen.
400
Animals who maintain the same internal body temperature are called this.
What is warm-blooded.
500
The viceroy butterfly looks like the monarch butterfly because the monarch butterfly tastes terrible. This is an example of this behavioral adaptation.
What is mimicry.
500
One of the adaptations that allow birds to fly.
Answers may vary (What are hollow bones. What are feathers. What are wings.)
500
The body system that eliminates waste from the body.
What is the excretory system.
500
Migration is a way for animals to meet this basic need.
What is climate.
500
Name one type of animal that is a vertebrate and one type of animal that is an invertebrate.
Answers vary. vertebrates: fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, mammals, etc. invertebrates: echinoderms, mollusks, arthropods, crustaceans, arachnids, insects, worms, etc.