A | B |
Living | people, plants, and animals that grow, eat, and change |
Nonliving | Were never alive |
Structural (physical) adaptation | a part of an organism that helps it survive in its habitat |
Behavioral adaptations | something an organism does or the way an animal behaves to survive in its habitat |
Adaptation | organism's structural or behavioral trait that helps it to survive in its environment |
Survive | to continue to live |
Basic needs of living things | air, water, food, and space |
Learned behavior | a behavior some animals have after being taught how |
Camouflage | a physical adaptation that allows animals to blend into their environments to protect themselves from enemies |
Migration | movement of animals from one region to another |
Hibernation | a behavioral adaptation where animals enter into a deep winter sleep, their body activities slow down and they live off the stored food in their bodies |
Mimicry | when animals can look like or act like another animal in their environment in order to defend themselves by tricking their predators |
Instinct | a behavior some animals have by knowing how to do something from birth, without having been taught how |