Animal adaptations are physical, physiological, traits or behaviours that help an animal survive and thrive in its environment. The adaption is generally helpful to the animals to survive in the wild, find food or find a mate.

Behavioural Adaptations, these are changes to an animal's actions or behaviours. 

Examples:

• Hibernation, where animals sleep through harsh winter conditions.
• Migration, such as birds traveling to warmer climates for the winter.
• Spiders instinctively building webs to catch food.
• Wolf pups learning hunting techniques from their parents.

A biome is a region of the world characterized by its native life, environment, and climate. Temperature, precipitation (rainfall), and amount of sunlight all affect what type of life lives in a particular biome and can help define each biome. There are lots of different biomes around the world. For example, forest, aquatic (water), tundra, desert, montane (mountains) and grasslands.

To learn more about the different biomes go to BiomeViewer 

In biology, conservation is the scientific study and practice of protecting and managing of animals, plants and natural areas (ecosystems). Its object is to preserve species, their habitats, and entire ecosystems from excessive rates of extinction and its decline.

Continents are any of the world's main continuous large areas of land (Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America, Australia, Antarctica).

DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) is like the set of genetic blueprints in every cell. It is responsible for building and running a living thing, or like a recipe for making all living things.

An ecosystem describes how the plants and animals live together in a particular environment. This definition includes both all living and no living things such as, plants and animals, water, climate, and soil.

An animal or plant that is at serious risk of extinction.

The dying out of a species, i.e. dinosaurs, dodo, woolly mammoth, thylacine. these species have no living individuals of that species left alive anywhere in the world. Extinction can also be sped-up by habitat destruction, over hunting, pollution, climate change and invasive species.

A habitat is specific to a species of plant, animal or population of organisms. The habitat is the natural home or of that species, or other organism. It is where it lives