Science Adaptations: 1. Physical adaptations help animals survive in their environment.

. These adaptations are usually part of their physical body. Examples include camouflage and mimicry. 2.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. 3.In order to survive, animals act in different ways to gather and store food, find shelter, defend themselves, and rear their young. 4.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). 5.Some animals go on a long-distance journey from one place to another as seasons change (migration). 6.Various animals blend into their environments to protect themselves from enemies (camouflage) . 7.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.)

8.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. 9.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. Animal Adaptations: Review Guide Many birds, such as ducks and geese, fly south every year for the winter. Then when spring comes and the winter gets warm up north, they fly back home. This kind of journey is called a migration. Have you ever wondered how these animals know when to migrate or where they need to go? Well, they know because their instinct tells them. An instinct is a behavior that animals are born with. It is different from a learned behavior because it doesnt need to be taught. animals have special features that help them survive called All adaptations. For example, frogs have powerful hind legs to help them jump, and polar bears have thick coats that keep them warm in the snow. behavioral adaptation is something that an animal does (an A action) to survive. Examples of behavioral adaptations are running from danger, hibernating and migrating. Whereas, a physical adaptation is something that an animal has (a part of its body) that helps it to survive. Examples of physical adaptations include body

coverings, a special kind of birds beak, camouflaging colors, wings and webbed feet.