Quiz Study Guide on Adaptations

Science Study Guide for Quiz on _____(9/7/12)____

Students, here is your study guide. Please discuss the following topics with an adult.

SOL 3.1

What are observations?

Scientists use their sense of sight, _____________(taste)__, hearing, _____(smell)_____________, and touch to take note of the world around them.

SOL 3.4

Structural Adaptations	Behavioral Adaptations
What are they? Also called Physical Adaptations, any _______(body)__________ part that help a living thing survive.	What are they? Anything a living thing ______(does)____________ to survive .
Examples: legs, fur, wings, beaks, hands that can grab, teeth, feet, body size, body weight, body shape, ________(insert your example here)_____________________ example: the gills of a fish	Examples: grabbing, hunting, swimming, running, screeching, birds calls, ______(insert your example here)_________________________ ex.: a seagull dropping clams over  rocks to break them open and then eat them
Special examples*: camouflage, mimicry	Special examples:* hibernation, dormancy, migration, instincts, learned behaviors

*We are currently working in class on developing these notes. For the quiz Sept 7, what is on this page is all I expect you to understand.