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| living things - people, animals, bugs, etc. |
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| changes that help an organism survive and meet their basic needs |
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| reasons for animal adaptations |
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| food, water, oxygen, weather (climate), predators, and reproduction (having babies) |
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| animals that eat other animals |
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| instinctive and behavioral adaptations |
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| born with the behavior, something inherited from parents |
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| have to be taught to do something or learn by observing |
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| changes in body parts, coloring, physical (ex. long belly fur, fur between paw pads) |
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| bright colors and patterns that warn enemies of danger |
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| animals are able to blend into their natural surroundings |
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| one species looks like another (ex. Viceroy butterfly looks like a Monarch butterfly so it won't get eaten. Monarch butterflies taste bad to some predators) |
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