Science-Animal Adaptations 3rd Grade

Question 1

Four things an animal needs to survive

Answer 1

Water, shelter, oxygen, and food

Question 2

Adaptations

Answer 2

A feature of behavior that helps an animal survive.

Question 3

Physical Adaptation

Answer 3

A part of an animals body that helps it survive. For Example, beavers teeth, fishes gills

Question 4

Behavioral Adaptation

Answer 4

Animal changes its action to survive. For example, possums play dead and lions roar.

Question 5

Camouflage

Answer 5

A color, patter, or shape that helps an animal blend into its environment.

Question 6

Hibernation

Answer 6

A kind of sleep that animals do in the winter (low body temperature and slow heart rate)

Question 7

Migration

Answer 7

Movement: traveling done by some animals to another place as the seasons change

Question 8

Food Obtainment

Answer 8

Special beaks or teeth that animals have in order to obtain food.

Question 9

Locomotion

Answer 9

Being able to move to food, water, or shelter

Question 10

Defense

Answer 10

An action to keep animals from being hurt

Question 11

Science Process Skills

Answer 11

Observation, prediction and inference

Question 12

Observation

Answer 12

Using your senses to know what is “for sure” about the picture

Question 13

Prediction

Answer 13

What you think will happen in the future

Question 14

Inference

Answer 14

Using your observation to make a “good guess” on what you think is happening

Question 15

Ennvironment

Answer 15

It is a place that animals and plants live.

Question 16

Three facts about desert environment

Answer 16

Very dry, very sandy and many plants and animals live in the desert

Question 17

Two facts about a rain forest environment

Answer 17

Very wet and many plants and animals live in the rain forest