Adaptations and Variations

What is an adaptation?

• A feature or behavior that helps an animal survive.
• The food that an animal eats.
• How energy moves in a food web.
• How animals evolve throughout time.

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How do adaptations help animals?

• to hide from predators
• to hunt for food
• to survive in their habitats
• All of these are correct

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An animal's color or pattern that helps it blend into its surroundings

• Environment 
• Mimicry
• Camouflage
• Habitat

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When an animal looks like another animal it is called ______________.

• camouflage
• mimicry
• warning coloration
• protective resemblance

The ears of this fox are an example of...

• A behavioral adaptation
• Poor breeding
• A physical adaptation
• Plastic surgery gone horribly wrong

A giraffe's long neck - used to reach leaves high in trees - is an example of a 

• instinct
• learned behavior
• behavioral adaptation
• physical adaptation

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Causes of extinction include....

• disease, predation, competition, global catastophe
• when all animals of a species become extinct
• some animals get hunted

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This is a state of inactivity that occurs in some animals when outside temperatures are cold: ______

• hibernation
• migration

Animals that have something they DO to live (hibernate, migrate, etc.) are exhibiting ____ adaptations.

• behavioral
• structural
• physiological
• assistive

Selective breeding is when ____.

• animals change because of their environment
• humans choose the desired traits and breed animals
• animals fight each other to survive
• when humans go to the pet store