Surviving Winter

When an animal develops features or qualities that HELP IT SURVIVE in its environment.

• Migration

• Metabolism

• Adaptation

• Instinct

Color or pattern on an animal's body that hides it from predators.

• Migration

• Hibernation

• Instinct

• Camouflage

When animals move from one place to another in order to survive.

• migration

• camouflage

• instinct

• behaviors

Sleeping and resting throughout the winter.

• instinct

• hibernation

• behavior

• camouflage

The way living things act in their environment.

• instinct

• hibernation

• metabolism

• behavior

An animal's behavior or knowledge that happens automatically.

• behavior

• instinct

• metabolism

• adaptation

How fast an animal burns energy from food.

• adaptation

• hibernation

• metabolism

• instinct

Freeze tolerance, thick coats of hollow hair, and brown fat are examples of ____________ , which help animals survive in their environments.

• hibernation

• instincts

• metabolism

• adaptations

Some animals spend weeks or months each winter in a kind of deep sleep called _________.

• metabolism

• adaptation

• hibernation

• behaviors

Shivering and fluffing up feathers are ________ that birds perform to keep warm.

• metabolism

• behaviors

• adaptations

• migrations