1. Open Court Vocabulary for
“Animal Camouflage”

2. clothes you wear to look like someone or something else
costume
clothes you wear to look like someone or something else
Can you imagine putting on a costume that made you look like a tree?

3. area or things that are around a person or thing
surroundings
area or things that are around a person or thing
Where the elephant lives are called its surroundings.

4. fades into something else
blends
fades into something else
The fawn’s spots helped it blend into the woods.

5. to imitate or pretend to be something else
mimicry
to imitate or pretend to be something else
Some animals have good mimicry and are hard to find.

6. Birds that use mimicry are good pretenders.
things that act or look like something else
Birds that use mimicry are good pretenders.

7. A marsh is land that is very wet, like a swamp.
wet land
A marsh is land that is very wet, like a swamp.

8. surroundings

9. pretenders

10. costume

11. blends

12. marsh

13. mimicry