1. adaptations Why do birds fly North for the Winter?
Why do porcupines have sharp quills?
adaptations

2. 2 TYPES OF ADAPTATIONS
Behavioral Physical

3. Behavioral Adaptation
Helps an organism survive or reproduce, such as migration. (something they do-action)

4. Physical Adaptation
adaptation characterized by how physical features help animals survive, such as the color of the animal’s fur.

5. Learned Behaviors
A behavior or activity that must be taught. (Cougar mom teaches cub to hunt)

6. Instinct
Natural behaviors animals are born with and need in order to survive in their environment. (baby leatherback turtle makes its way to the ocean without instruction)

7. Migration
When animals travel from one area to another and back each year, often for food or to reproduce.
Whales travel to
cold water for
feeding and warm
water for giving birth.

8. Hibernation
An animals long, deep sleep that allows it to survive in the winter.
Grizzly bears
hibernate up to
71/2 months
without eating.

9. Fright
When an animal makes a frightful display such as hissing, showing its teeth, or making noises to frighten away its predator.

10. Mimicry
When an animal looks like another animal to fool its predator.

11. Protective Resemblance
When an animal looks like or moves like something in its environment that is not alive.

12. Protective Coloration
When an animal can change its color to blend in with its environment.

13. Body Covering
When an animal has special body covering to protect it from predators.

14. Avoidance
When an animal does everything possible to stay away from its predators.

15. Escape
When an animal has the ability to get away from predators very quickly.

16. Chemical Defense
When an animal sprays a special chemical to keep predators away.

17. Symbiosis
The relationship between two different organisms: mutualism, parasitism, and commensalism. Do we help each other? Does one hurt the other?

18. Commensalism
The symbiotic relationship between two organisms where one organism benefits and the other is unaffected.
The jackal follows the tiger. The tiger kills its prey and the jackal feeds on what is left. The jackal is helped, but the tiger is unaffected.

19. Mutualism
The symbiotic relationship between two organisms where both organisms benefit mutually.
The remora fish eats
bacteria off of the whale.
The remora gets food
And the whale is cleaned.

20. Parasitism
A symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits at the expense of the host organism.
Mosquito gets
blood from the
human and the
human then is
injected with
poison.

21. Fossil
The preserved remains of animals, plants, and other organisms from the past

22. Playing Dead
When an animal pretends to be dead to fool its predators.

23. Weapon
When an animal has special body parts that they can use to defend themselves from predators.