Life Processes SOL 3.4

1. Life Processes SOL 3.4

2. Physical adaptations help animals survive in their environment. These adaptations are usually part of their physical body. Examples include camouflage and mimicry.

3. Physical adaptations • * help animals survive in their environment • * are usually part of their physical body • * Examples: • - camouflage and • - mimicry

4. Behavioral adaptations allow animals to respond to life needs. These adaptations are behaviors. An animal acts differently in order to survive. Examples include * hibernation,* migration, * instinct, * and learned behavior. Instinct hibernation migration Learned behavior

5. Behavioral adaptations • are behaviors • allow animals to respond to life needs • allow animals to act differently in order to survive • Examples: • * hibernation, • * migration, • * instinct and, • * learned behavior.

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7. In order to survive, animals act in different ways to * gather and store food, * find shelter, * defend themselves, * and rear their young.

8. Some animals go into a deep winter sleep where their body activities slow down (breathing and heart rate),and they live off stored food (hibernation).

9. Torpor • Some animals do not sleep the whole winter. These animals sleep most of the time, but from time to time when the weather is warmer, they wake and hunt for food. Then they return to their naps. Chipmunks and squirrels are “nappers.”

10. Some animals go on a long-distance journey from one place to another as seasons change (migration).

11. Various animals blend into their environments to protect themselves from enemies (camouflage).

12. Some animals look like other animals to avoid being eaten (mimicry). This adaptation helps protect them from their predators. (For example, the viceroy butterfly tastes good to birds, but the monarch butterfly tastes bad. Because the viceroy looks like the monarch butterfly, it is safer from predators.)

13. Some animals are born with natural behaviors that they need in order to survive in their environments. These behaviors are not learned but are instinctive, such as a beaver building a dam or a spider spinning a web.

14. Some behaviors need to be taught in order for the animal to survive, such as a bear cub learning to hunt. This is called learned behavior.

15. Are you ready to show what you’ve learned? • Test questions

16. 1. What helps animals to survive in their environment? • A) weather • B) physical adaptations • C) predator

17. B) physical adaptations

18. 2. There are adaptations that allow animals to respond to life needs. They hibernate, learn behavior from their parents, migrate or use their instincts to survive. What adaptations are those? • A) food adaptations • B) clothes adaptations • C) behavioral adaptations

19. C) behavioral adaptations

20. 3. When animals go into a deep winter sleep where their body activities slow down (breathing and heart rate) and they live off stored food, this is called… • A) hibernation • B) camouflage • C) mimicry

21. A) hibernation

22. 4. When animals go on a long-distance journey from one place to another as seasons change this is called… • A) population • B) migration • C) culture

23. B) migration

24. 5. When animals blend into their environments to protect themselves from enemies this is called… • A) migration • B) behaviors • C) camouflage

25. C) camouflage

26. 6. When animals look like other animals to avoid being eaten, this is called… • A) camouflage • B) mimicry • C) migration

27. B) mimicry

28. 7. When a beaver builds a dam or a spider spins a web they do that because of their… • A) behavior • B) instinct • C) learning

29. B) instinct

30. 8. If a bear cub learns to hunt this is called a… • A) learned behavior • B) instinct • C) migration

31. A) learned behavior

32. Did you get all them right? • You rock!!!