Science glossary · Australia
Adaptation
A body part or behaviour that helps a living thing survive where it lives.
Adaptations build up over many generations, not during one animal's life.
Example: A polar bear's thick fur and fat keep it warm in the Arctic.
Lessons, worksheets, practice and tools on this: Living things and life cycles.
Related words
- Photosynthesis: How green plants make their own food using light.
- Habitat: The place where a plant or animal naturally lives and finds what it needs.
- Life cycle: The stages a living thing goes through from birth to having young of its own.
- Germination: When a seed begins to grow into a new plant.
- Pollination: The moving of pollen from one part of a flower to another so that seeds can form.