1. Animal Adaptations
Vocabulary

2. Adaptation
A body part, body covering, or behavior that helps an animal survive in its environment.

3. Behavior
The actions of an animal.

4. Habitat
The place where an animal lives.

5. Environment
Everything that surrounds and affects living things. The environment includes non-living things, such as water and air, as well as other living things.

6. Predator
An animal that hunts and eats other animals for food.

7. Prey
An animal that is taken and eaten by another animal (predator) for food.

8. Survival
Using adaptations to continue to live.

9. Camouflage
A color or shape in an animal’s body covering that helps it blend into its environment.

10. Migration
The movement of a group of one type of animal from one region to another and back again

11. Hibernation
A period when an animal goes into a long, deep "sleep“

12. This moth caterpillar defends itself by mimicing a snake.
Mimicry
An adaptation in which an otherwise harmless animal “looks” like a harmful animal in order to protect itself.
Take a look at these two butterflies. One is a Monarch and very yucky to eat. The other is a Viceroy and very yummy. If an animal eats a Monarch butterfly and HATES it, it will stay away from ALL butterflies that look like Monarchs. This helps the Viceroy because many animals mistake it for a Monarch.
Hawk Moth Mimicry
This moth caterpillar defends itself by mimicing a snake.

13. Inborn Behavior (Instinct)
A behavior an animal is born with and does not have to learn.