Adaptations and Survival Pre-Check

How quickly do animals get their adaptations?

• Animals can get new adaptations overnight.

• Animals can get new adaptations over the summer.

• It takes years for animals to grow a new adaptation.

• Animal are born with their adaptations.

How can camouflage help a predator catch and eat an animal?

• Camouflage makes teeth sharper to kill animals easier.

• Camouflage helps the predator sneak up on and surprise the animal.

• Camouflage makes the predator faster so it can catch the animal easier.

• Camouflage helps animals have bright colors to stand out.

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Which of these is a structural adaptaion that enables animals to keep warm?

• blubber under a whale's skin

• down over a bird's primary feathers

• the black skin and while fur of a polar bear

• extra muscles in the legs

Which of these is NOT a way that flight can help animals survive?

• Flight helps animals escape predators

• Flight helps some animals become food to a predator.

• Flight helps all animals move faster.

• Flight helps animals scatter droppings.

Which of these is NOT a way animals raise their young?

• Fish overproduce their young.

• Kangaroos carry their young in a special pouch.

• Only the female penguin protects the egg while the male hunts.

• Polar bear mothers show their young where to find food.

Which is an example of an animal's habitat?

• the bright colors on a frog warning that it's poisonous

• a bird's nest

• a frog laying many eggs in the bushes

• the fins on a fish

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How do toxins help an animal survive?

• Toxins poison an attacking animal.

• Toxins make loud noises to scare away an attacking animal.

• Toxins camouflage an animal.

• Toxins help an animal run fast to escape an attacking animal.

If an ectothermic animal wanted to get warm, where would you find it?

• burrowed down deep in the ground

• laying out on a log under the sun

• hiding in a tree away from the wind

• swimming through coral

Where could you find a terrestrial animal?

• living in a pond

• living inside another animal

• living in the grass

• living in the ocean

Which of the following is an example of an inherited trait?

• a cat learning how to use the litter box

• a polar bear fishing in the ocean

• fish swimming up stream

• a baby having a nose the same shape as his dad's nose

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