Adaptations

What is a structural adaptation?

• A change in an animal's physical features that improves its ability to survive

• A change in an animal's behaviour that improves its ability to survive

• A change in an animal's habitat that improves its ability to survive

• A change in an animal's diet that improves its ability to survive

What is a behavioural adaptation?

• A change in an animal's behaviour that improves its ability to survive

• A change in an animal's physical features that improves its ability to survive

• A change in an animal's internal (inside) features that improves its ability to survive

• A change in an animal's diet that improves its ability to survive

Migration is an example of what type of adaptation?

• Structural

• Behavioural

• Physiological

• Genetic

When whales travel long distances from the Antarctic to warmer waters to give birth, this is an example of a...

• Animals gone wild

• physiological adaptation

• structural adaptation

• behavioural adaptation

Nocturnality (or coming out at night) is a behavioural adaptation. Select all the reasons why an animal might behave like this.

• To conserve water

• To avoid doing any homework

• To avoid the heat of the day

• To avoid predators

Communal living (living in groups) is a behavioural adaptation. Select all the animals that have this adaptation.

• humans

• ants

• meerkats

• bees

What is an adaptation? Choose the correct response.

• A process where an environment changes to better suit an animal

• A process that enables a plant or animal to change over time in order to survive in an environment

• A process that enables a plant or animal to get bigger and smaller over time

• A process that makes an animal or plant less likely to survive

A camel has long eyelashes to keep sand out of its eyes in the desert. This is an example of what type of adaptation?

• supernatural

• behavioural

• structural

• physiological

Choose all the examples of behavioural adaptations.

• blubber

• nocturnality

• mimicry

• migration

A cactus has spines to stop animals eating the plant for the water it stores. Spines are what type of adaptation?

• structural

• adaptation

• behavioural

• physiological