Vocabulary
The surroundings in which an organism lives?
What is Environment?
What type of adaptation is seen in a leaf bug?
a. Migration
b. Burrowing
c. Camouflage
c. Camouflage
Which animal adaptation would most likely be found in the Desert biome?
a. Ways to save water and stay cool
b. Extra layers of fat and have fur
c. Store their food for the winter
d. Eat food other animals do not eat
a. Ways to save water and stay cool
An advantageous trait that becomes more common in a population is also known as a(n) ____________.
adaptation
Which animal has heavy fur and extra fat as an adaptation?
Polar bear
all the organisms in the same group of organisms
What is population?
A woodpecker has a long, thin, pointed beak. How would this adaptation help it survive?
It can easily pick bugs out of the bark in the trees.
Which animal adaptation would most likely be found in the Tropical Forest biome?
a. Ways to save water and stay cool
b. Extra layers of fat and have fur
c. Store their food for the winter
d. Eat food other animals do not eat
d. Eat food other animals do not eat
A gene that helps an animal survive and _______ can get passed on to its offspring.
reproduce
What is it called when organisms blend into their environment?
Camouflage
to produce one or more organisms
What is Reproduce/Procreate?
A young deer, called a fawn, is brown with light spots. Its coloring helps it to blend in with the trees in the woods where it lives. What kind of adaptation is this?
Camouflage
Which plant adaptation would be the most common in the cold Arctic environment?
a. Roots can store a lot of water
b. Leaves can change in the fall
c. Plants can begin to grow under snow, close to the ground
d. Plants can grow without a lot of sunlight
c. Plants can begin to grow under snow, close to the ground
Being easily seen by a predator is a ________ that is disadvantageous.
trait
An advantageous trait that becomes more common in a population is also known as a(n) ____________.
adaptation
a characteristic or feature of an organism
What is trait?
A harmless animal that looks like a dangerous animal is an example of ____________.
Mimicry
The Mountain hare is made up of mostly white-furred hares with only a few dark-furred hares because they rely on snow for protection during the winter time. Due to global warming, there has been a decrease in snowfall, rarely leaving any snow on the ground. How do you think this might affect the population of Mountain hares?
a. They will all remain with the same color fur.
b. There will be more dark-furred hares because those hares survive longer in their dry environment to pass on their dark fur genes to their offspring.
c. With less snowfall, all white-furred hares will die because all are now visible by predators.
d. All hares will migrate to another area.
b. There will be more dark-furred hares because those hares survive longer in their dry environment to pass on their dark fur genes to their offspring.
A scientist collects wild rabbits that live at sea level and moves them to the mountains. One year later, the scientist discovers that not all of the rabbits survived in the mountains. The scientist noticed that those that did survive had larger lungs than the ones that did not survive. What conclusion can the scientist draw?
The larger lungs helped them to breathe the thin mountain air.
What type of adaptation are the webbed feet of a duck?
a. structural
b. behavioral
c. physiological
a. structural
a characteristic that is beneficial to an organism’s survival or reproduction
What is Advantageous Trait?
What kind of adaptation does the Viceroy butterfly use? It looks like the Monarch butterfly, which tastes terrible to birds, so birds won't take the chance and eat the Viceroy. What is this kind of adaptation?
Mimicry
During the Industrial Revolution, dark ash in the air caused tree lichen that was normally white to darken. What advantageous trait helped moths camouflage themselves in this environment during this time?
Dark wings
Birds have specific beak types that have adapted to specific food sources. If insects were removed from the population, what do you think would happen to the population of the small insectivorous tree finch?
They would decrease in population.
A grey whale's migration pattern is what type of adaptation?
a. structural
b. behavioral
c. physiological
b. behavioral