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Adaptations

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  • Behavioral adaptation for shelter
    nest building, den making, burrowing
  • Structure that allows fish to extract oxygen and nutrients from the water
    Gills
  • Which adaptations helps animals live in water?
    Fins, Gills
  • When animals sleep throughout the winter months
    Hibernation
  • A behavioral adaptation that organisms are born with
    Instinctive Behavior
  • Structure that stores food for a plant until conditions are right for it to grow
    Bulb
  • An adaptation of an animals BODY either internal or external
    Structural Adaptation
  • A type of adaptation that is a function within the organisms body
    physiological
  • Structure that makes birds lighter and better able to fly
    hollow bones
  • When animals move from one place to another
    Migration
  • A behavioral adaptation that an organism acquires by interaction with their environment
    Learned Behavior
  • Two ways behaviors can be learned
    taught, experience
  • Structure that takes water up into a plant
    Xylem
  • Something an organism DOES to help it survive
    Behavioral Adaptation
  • two types of structural adaptations
    internal, external
  • When an organism copies another organism to help it survive
    Mimicry
  • When animals are able to blend in with their environment
    Camouflage
  • Structural adaptations for eating
    teeth, beaks
  • True or False? All structures and instinctive behaviors are genetically passed down
    True
  • Structural adaptations for catching prey
    claws, talons, teeth