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Grade 4 Chapter Vocabulary Choose a button below. I need to study first! I need to study first! I am ready to quiz myself! I am ready to quiz myself!
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Lesson Vocabulary Adaptation Camouflage Mimicry Instinct Migration
Vocabulary – Animal Adaptations Lesson Vocabulary Adaptation A body part or behavior that helps an organism meet its needs Camouflage An animal’s color or pattern that helps it blend with its surroundings Mimicry An adaptation when an animal looks very much like another animal or object Instinct A behavior that an animal begins life with Migration The movement of a group of one type of animal from one region to another and back again Hibernation A period when an animal goes into a long, deep “sleep” Click the arrow when you are ready to quiz yourself! Good Luck!
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Types of Adaptation Anything that helps an organism survive in its environment is an adaptation. It also refers to the ability of living things to adjust to different conditions within their environments. Structural adaptation Protective coloration Mimicry Behavior adaptations Migration Hibernation
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Structural adaptations
Return Structural adaptations A structural adaptation involves some part of an animal's body. Teeth Body coverings Movement A structural adaptation involves some part of an animal's body, such as the size or shape of the teeth, the animal's body covering, or the way the animal moves. Teeth - since different animals eat different things, they don't all have the same kind of teeth Body coverings - Hair, scales, spines, and feathers grow from the skin. All of these parts help animals survive in their environments. Movement - animals find food by moving from place to place
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Protective Coloration
Return Protective Coloration Coloration and protective resemblance allow an animal to blend into its environment. Another word for this might be camouflage. Their camouflage makes it hard for enemies to single out individuals.
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Return Mimicry Mimicry allows one animal to look, sound, or act like another animal to fool predators into thinking it is poisonous or dangerous. Coral snake (left) very poinsonous & Milk snake (right)
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Return Behavior adaptations Behavior adaptations include activities that help an animal survive. Behavior adaptations can be learned or instinctive. Social behavior Behavior for protection Behavior adaptations include activities that help an animal survive. Behavior adaptations can be learned or instinctive. (a behavior an animal is born with). Social behavior - some animals live by themselves, while other live in groups. Behavior for protection - An animal's behavior sometimes helps to protect the animal. For instance the opossum plays dead. A rabbit freezes when it thinks it has been seen.
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Migration Animals migrate for different reasons. Return
better climate better food safe place to live safe place to raise young go back to the place they were born. This is when behavioral adaptation that involves an animal or group of animals moving from one region to another and then back again. Migration-is the behavioral adaptation that involves an animal or group of animals moving from one region to another and then back again. Animals migrate for different reasons. The reasons are as follows. better climate better food safe place to live safe place to raise young go back to the place they were born.
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Return Hibernation This is deep sleep in which animal’s body temp droops, body activities are slowed to conserve energy. E.g. Bats, woodchucks & bears. Hibernation- is a deep sleep in which an animal's body temperature drops to about the temperature of the environment. Body activities, such as heartbeat and breathing are slowed causing the animal to need very little food. Animals that hibernate are bats woodchucks snakes bears. During the hibernation the animals live off of the fat that is stored in their body.
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An animal’s color or pattern that helps it blend with its surroundings
Grade 4 Chapter Vocabulary Animal Adaptations # 1 adaptation instinct camouflage migration mimicry hibernation
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A period when an animal goes into a long, deep “sleep”
Grade 4 Chapter Vocabulary Animal Adaptations # 2 adaptation instinct camouflage migration mimicry hibernation
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A body part or behavior that helps an organism meet its needs
Grade 4 Chapter Vocabulary Animal Adaptations # 3 adaptation instinct camouflage migration mimicry hibernation
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The movement of a group of one type of animal from one region to another and back again
Grade 4 Chapter Vocabulary Animal Adaptations # 4 adaptation instinct camouflage migration mimicry hibernation
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An adaptation when an animal looks very much like another animal or object
Grade 4 Chapter Vocabulary Animal Adaptations # 5 adaptation instinct camouflage migration mimicry hibernation
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A behavior that an animal begins life with
Grade 4 Chapter Vocabulary Animal Adaptations # 6 adaptation instinct camouflage migration mimicry hibernation
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