Behavioral & physical adaptations

Behavioral & physical adaptations

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  Behavioral & Physical Adaptations 4th gradescience
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  Adaptations An adaptation isa way an animal’s body helps it survive, or live, in its environment. An adaptation is a trait that makes an animal suited to its environment. It can be a behavioral or a structural trait.
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  Behavioral Adaptations • Organismshave behavioral adaptations, or certain types of activities they perform, which help them meet a life need. • Behavioral adaptations include activities that help an animal survive. • Behavioral adaptations can be learned or instinct (a behavior an animal is born with). • Behavioral changes can change quickly.
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  Examples:  Some animalslive in groups, while others live by themselves
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   Some animalsmigrate like geese and butterflies for better food supply and climate
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   The opossum“plays” dead for protection from its enemies  Some animals “freeze” for protection like rabbits
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   Some animalshibernate to survive through the winter like bears and bats
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   An animal’sinstinct
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  Physical Adaptations • Physicaladaptations are physical features of an organism like a fin on a fish or feathers on a bird. • A physical adaptation involves some part of an animal’s body such as body movement, body coverings, type of appendages, and body shape. • A physical adaptation happens over a long period of time by changing the animal’s genetic traits.
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  Examples:  Structural characteristicslike a giraffe’s long neck or an elephant’s long trunk.
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   Fins forswimming, wings for flying, legs for running, or type of teeth
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   Camouflage wherean animals blends into its surroundings like a chameleon that changes color according to its surroundings
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   Mimicry whichallows one animal to look, sound, or act like another animal to fool predators into thinking it is poisonous or dangerous like the king snake.