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Animals with backbones
Vertebrates
Animals that cannot regulate their internal body temperature; body temperature depends on the environment
Ectotherms
Animals that can regulate their internal body temperatures
Endotherms
Any characteristic that allows an organism to better survive in its environment
Adaption
The movement of an animal from one region or climate to another for specific period of time
Migration
A technique used by animals to lure prey by mimicking something else
Aggressive mimicry
Asleep during the day and awake at night
Nocturnal
Awake during the day in the sleep at night
Diurnal
A resting state of some animals during cold weather when their entire metabolism, including digestion, respiration, and heart rate, slows down
Hibernation
And adaption of some animals that helps them to hunt or to avoid predators by having a color that is the same as environment; examples: a white rabbit may be harder to see in the snow, the stripes on the tiger help camouflage it
Camouflage or cryptic coloration
An adaption of some animals that causes them to look like something else in there environment; example: an insect may have the same body shape as a leaf
Protective resemblance
A type of protective resemblance that causes an animal to look like something that it’s predators would rather avoid than eat
Mimicry
An adaption that helps to protect and animals most vulnerable body part or parts from predators by having one body part look like a different body part
Self mimicry
A protection adoption used by some animals that uses color to warn other animals to keep away
Warning coloration
Phylum in the animal kingdom includes animals with back bones
Chordata
