VOCABULARY | Animal Behaviors | Animals' Bodies | Adaptations | More about Animals |
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What is environment?
The living and nonliving things that surround an animal
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What is an instinct?
A behavior that animal is born knowing, and is not learned
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What are hair/fur, scales, and feathers
The three kinds of body coverings
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What is helps them get food from environment
How a birds beak helps them eat
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What are the ground squirrel and the north American bat
Some examples of animals that hibernate
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What is an adaptation?
A body part of animal that helps it survive (like gills of a fish or wings of a bird)
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What is migration?
When animals move from one place to another, like birds flying south in the winter
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What are climate, oxygen, food, water, and shelter
The five basic needs of animals
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What is long and pointy beaks are good for drinking nectar
How a bird's beak helps it eat
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What is a shelter
Where an animal is protect
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What is hibernation?
When an animal sleeps through the winter, and its body temperature, heart rate, and breathing slow down
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What is eat extra food and find shelter
What animals do when preparing to hibernate
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What are hollow bones, beaks, and claws
Three bird adaptations
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What is sharp beaks are good for tearing meat
How a bird's beak helps it eat
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What is mimicry
The ability of animal to look like another animal and be protected from predators
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What is the climate?
The temperature and weather conditions of a place
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What is an instinct is something you were born knowing, and learned behaviors are learned
How instincts and learned behaviors are different
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What is they make them light
How birds hollow bones help them
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What is webbed feet help them get through the water
How animal's foot adaptations help them travel
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What are climate, oxygen, food, water and shelter
The five basic needs of animals
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What is metamorphosis?
the process of changing from one stage to another
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What is camouflage
How animals blend in with their surroundings
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What are the monarch butterfly and the Atlantic green turtle
Two examples of animals that migrate
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What is long/sharp feet are good for hunting and landing on limbs
How animal's foot adaptations help them travel
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What is body temperature drops, heart rate drops, and breathing rate drops
Three things that happen when an animal hibernates
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