Behavioral and Physical Adaptations

Penguins huddling together is a _________

• physical adaptation

• behavioral adaptation

A behavioral adaptation is what an animal DOES in order to survive.

• True

• False

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• Physical

• Behavioral

• Behavioral

• Physical

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Birds migrate during the winter to less cold areas. What type of adaptation is this?

• Behavioral Adapatation

• Physical Adaptation

Gila monsters are desert lizards that are inactive most of the time, with most of their activities occurring mainly at night or in the early morning and evening hours. They move about slowly. Their bumpy, scaly body has a large, blunt head with a powerful lower jaw, a thick tail for fat storage, short legs, and strong claws. There are venom glands in the lower jaw. Which of these are behavioral adaptations?

• A blunt head with powerful lower jaw

• thick tail which can store fat for nutrition in lean months

• poison glands in the lower jaw

• active at night or early morning and evening hours and move about slowly

Birds migrate during the winter to less cold areas. What type of adaptation is this?

• Behavioral 

• Physiological 

• Structural

When animals go into a deep sleep during the winter, they are using which behavioral adaptation?

• Hibernation

• Mimicry

• Migration

• Camouflage

Check all of the BEHAVIORAL adaptations. There are 3 correct answers.

• Long, sharp teeth

• Travel in groups

• Thick fur

• play dead

• Migrate

• Behavioral

• Physical