Adaptations

A change that helps an organism grow in it's environment, can be good or bad.

• Camouflage

• Adaptation

• Instinct

• Trait

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

A quality or feature that distinguishes an animal from one another. Usually something physical

• inherited behavior

• learned behavior

• trait

• instinct

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

Passed down genetically from their parents, allows them to look like their parents.

• inherited trait

• acquired trait

• inherited behavior

• learned behavior

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

Can NOT be passed down genetically, usually unique to the individual animal, can change the way they look

• inherited trait

• inherited behavior

• acquired trait

• acquired behavior

All the ways animals interact with their environment and each other. What they do or avoid doing.

• inherited trait

• acquired trait

• instinct

• behavior

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Actions that are not taught, abilities they can do from birth or come naturally

• acquired trait

• inherited trait

• camouflage

• inherited behavior

Learned over time, not born with the ability

• inherited behavior

• camoflauge

• learned behavior

• learned trait

spinning a web, hibernation, migration, a baby crying

• instinct

• learned behavior

• inherited trait

• acquired trait

an adaptation that allows an animal to blend in with their environment and can increase their chances of survival

• inherited trait

• inherited behavior

• instincts

• camouflage

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Which inherited trait is helpful to a buffalo defend itself?

• horns

• aggression

• diet

• fur

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4