Adaptations and the Environment Vocabulary Gen Genius

Camouflage

• A slow-moving mammal found in tropical forests that hang from trees and eat mostly leaves.

• A pattern, color or shape that helps a living thing blend into its environment.

• A spiny mammal with a long nose and big claws found mostly in Australia.

• Human thumbs are called opposable thumbs.

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Echidna

• A spiny mammal with a long nose and big claws found mostly in Australia.

• An animal that eats other animals.

• An animal that is eaten by other animals.

• The environment includes everything living and nonliving in an area.

Environment

• An animal that is eaten by other animals.

• A mammal that is covered in armor made of bony plates.

• A pattern, color or shape that helps a living thing blend into its environment.

• The "Place" includes everything living and nonliving in an area.

Predator

• A slow-moving mammal found in tropical forests that hang from trees and eat mostly leaves

• An animal that eats other animals.

• The environment includes everything living and nonliving in an area.

• An animal that is eaten by other animals.

Armadillo

• An animal that eats other animals.

• A pattern, color or shape that helps a living thing blend into its environment.

• A mammal that is covered in armor made of bony plates. They are usually the size of a small dog and some can roll into a ball to protect themselves.

• We can move our thumbs around to touch other fingers and grasp things. Animals like a dog cannot do this.

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Sloth

• A characteristic of a living thing that helps it survive in its environment.

• The environment includes everything living and nonliving in an area.

• It is usually used to help prey avoid predators or for predators not to be seen by prey.

• A slow-moving mammal found in tropical forests that hang from trees and eat mostly leaves.

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Opposable Thumbs

• An animal that eats other animals.

• We can move our thumbs around to touch other fingers and grasp things. Animals like a dog cannot do this.

• A slow-moving mammal found in tropical forests that hang from trees and eat mostly leaves.

• For example the environment of a giraffe has grass, tress, water, other animals and non-living things like rocks and soil.

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Adaptation

• The environment includes everything living and nonliving in an area.

• A pattern, color or shape that helps a living thing blend into its environment.

• A characteristic of a living thing that helps it survive in its environment.

• An animal that eats other animals.

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Prey

• A slow-moving mammal found in tropical forests that hang from trees and eat mostly leaves.

• An animal that is eaten by other animals.

• A characteristic of a living thing that helps it survive in its environment.

• An animal that eats other animals.