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animal adaptations
SOL 3.4
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Science
3rd Grade
10/18/2012

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Camouflage
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An animals shape, color, or pattern that helps it to blend in with its surroundings.
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Shelter
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A place to live that offers an animal protetion: refuge
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Defend {Defence}
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The way an animal protects itself.
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Gather{Store food}
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Animals must do this when food becomes difficult to find.
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Envirment                                                           

 

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Were an animal lives ; its surroundings.
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Hibernation
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A deep winter  sleep in which body activities of some animals slow down; these animals live off stored fat {frogs, bats, and some squirrels.}

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Instinct
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Something an animals knows how to do from the day it was born; natural, not taught.
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Learned Behavior
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A behaior that an animal develops by observing other animals or by being taught.
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Migration
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A journy from one place to another as the seasons change {instinctive behavior.}
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Mimicry
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An animal looking like another animal in order to survive.
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Physical Adaptation

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Something that helps an animal survive in its specific envirment {camouflage, mimicry.}
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Behaviorl Adaptation
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An action or behavior that helps an animal survive.
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Adaptation
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A structure, behavior, or trait that helps an organism {living thing} survive in its enviroment.
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Hibernation
Definition
adaptation where animals enter a deep winter sleep, body activities slow daown and they live off of stored food in body.
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migration
Definition
adaptation where animals travel a long distance - journey from place to another as seasons change in search of food or shelter.
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Instinct
Definition
behavior some animals just have - knowing how to do something since birth, without being taught.
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Adaptation
Definition
Structural or behavioral trait that helps it to survive in environment.
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Mimicry
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when animals look like or act like other animals in environment in order to defend themselves by tricking predators.
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Learned Behavior
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behvior that animals are taught how to do.
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Camouflage
Definition
physical adaptation that allows animals to blend into environment to protect self against enemies.
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