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Animal Adaptations Test:

Multiple Choice: Read all questions and answers. Select the best
answer by circling the letter. (5 points each)

1. What is an animal adaptation?

a. a special skill or physical change which helps an animal to
survive
b. the dying out or disappearance of a species from earth
c. a form of hibernation for cold blooded animals
d. the act or an instance of moving from one place to another

2. What does extinction mean?

a. when a habitat can no longer support plants, animals, and
other organisms that live in it
b. Taking more from the land and sea than can be replaced
c. the dying out or disappearance of a species from earth
d. the continuation of life

3. What are behavioral adaptations?

a. are actions animals take to survive in their environments
b. the dying out or disappearance of a species from earth
c. some type of structural modification made to a part of the
body that helps the animal to survive in the environment
d. the series of stages that an animal passes through between
the time it is born until adulthood
 4. What are physical adaptations?
a. the series of stages that an animal passes through between the
time it is born until adulthood
b. when a habitat can no longer support plants, animals, and
other organisms that live in it
c. Taking more from the land and sea than can be replaced
d. some type of structural modification made to a part of the
body that helps the animal to survive in the environment

5. What are life-cycle adaptations?

a. Process an animal goes through to help it survive
b. Taking more from the land and sea than can be replaced
c. the dying out or disappearance of a species from earth
d. the change in conditions such as temperature, rainfall, rising
sea levels over a long period of time

True/False: Read the statement and choose if it is true or false by

circling “true” or “false”. (5 points each)

6. True or False: Survival means the continuation of life.

a. True
b. False
 7. True or False: Life-Cycle is the series of stages that an animal
passes through between the time it is born until adulthood.
a. True
b. False

8. True or False: Migration is the act of dying out or

disappearance of a species.
a. True
b. False

9. True or False: Claws are used for flying or soaring in the air.
a. True
b. False

10. True or False: Hibernation means taking more from the

land and sea than can be replaced.
a. True
b. False

Matching: Match the word to the definition. Write the letter of the
correct word next to the definition. (5 points each)
11._____is the change in A. Invasive Species
conditions such as
temperature, rainfall,
rising sea levels over a
long period of time.

12. ____ is taking more B. Pollution

from the land and sea
than can be replaced.
13._____ are living C. Habitat
things introduced into an Destruction
environment and
typically causes damage
to the ecosystem.
14. _____ is when a D. Over-Exploitation
habitat can no longer
support plants, animals,
and other organisms that
live in it.
15. _____is unwanted E. Climate Change
elements such as gas,
smoke, and other
chemicals are introduced
into the environment.
F. Extinction

Fill in the blank: Read the statement and fill in the correct word using
the word bank provided below. (5 points each)

Word Bank:

Hibernation Migration Brumation

Claws Survival Wings

Fur

16. ______________ is a deep sleep that some animals take part in in

order to survive the harsh months of winter.

17. ______________ is a form of hibernation for cold blooded animals.

18. ______________ are used for catching and gripping food.

19. ______________ is used for keeping animals dry and providing

warmth.

20. ______________ is moving from one place to another to survive and

move to food and warmth.