Animal Adaptions
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| What is an adaptation? | It is any body structure or behavioral response that helps an animal survive
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| What are the 2 ways in which animals hide from predators? | Camouflage and Mimicry
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| What is camouflage? | It is when an animal's skin color changes to match or matches the surroundings
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| What is mimicry? | It is when an animal copies the appearance of or looks like something else.
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| What are the 3 types of Camouflage? | Changing skin color, Skin matching environment and Response to weather.
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| What are some animals that exhibit camouflage? | Chameleons, octopuses, sea horses...
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| What are some animals that exhibit mimicry? | Viceroy and Monarch butterflies. Coral and King snakes.
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| What are some adaptations that animals use to cause painful attacks? | Horns, Claws, Quills , Stingers, Venom...
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| What are some adaptations that help animals prevent direct attacks? | Change in size, Shells, Emitting smells, Body fluids...
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| What are some adaptations that help animals flee? | Body design, Sensory organs, Legs, Wings or lightweight skeleton
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| What are some adaptations that help animals dig or tunnel? | Paws and toenails
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| What are some examples of grouping? | herds, packs, colonies, schools
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| What is disruptive coloration? | Animal coloration that confuses predators and they cannot tell one animal apart from another in the herd.
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| What are some adaptations that animals have for movement? | legs, feet and arms, tails, fins, wings, body design, skeleton
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| What are some adaptations that animals have to obtain resources? | beaks, teeth, flexible jaws, tongues, tube-shaped parts, tentacles, pincers, claws, fangs, filter feeding, bulk feeding
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| What is filter feeding? | Animals feed by straining suspended matter and food particles from water.
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| What is bulk feeding? | Animals feed by eating pieces of other organisms or swallow them whole.
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