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Guided Notes• ADAPTATION
-a characteristic of a living thing that helps it survive in its environment.
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Why do animals need to adapt?
Animals Adapt to:
1. Protect themselves
2. Help themselves obtain food
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Animals with Unique Adaptations
HUMMING BIRD
- Long, skinny beak ( food)
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Adaptations
PELICANS- Large beak to scoop fish
( food)
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HAWKS- Sharp hooked beaks to
eat small animals
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SLOTH
- Camouflage for protection from predators
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ECHIDNA
- Long snout, electrical sensing ability, long tongue to obtain food
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Animals with Unique
Adaptations
-ARMADILLO- tough
armored plates for defense against predators
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GIRAFFE
- Black tip of tongue to prevent sunburn ( protection)
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What are some unique animal adaptations?
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A dog’s sense of smell
is 1 million times more
sensitive than humans.
• This adaptation allow them to:
• find their food and
detect territorial markings from other dogs.
• Some dogs are trained
to use their powerful
sniffers to aid in search
and rescue operations.
What are some unique animal adaptations?
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A cat’s eyes are adapted for night-time hunting.
Cats also have retractable claws used for climbing, hunting, and defending themselves.
What are some unique animal adaptations?
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The strong leg muscles of deer help them run up to 30 miles per hour.
Speed is an adaptation that animals use to escape from predators. It helps them survive.
What are some unique animal adaptations?
LIZARDS
- Tails can break off when grabbed by predators
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Animals with Unique Adaptations
humans
- Opposable thumbs to grasp something
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Some Animal Physical Adaptations
COLORS
• Bright Colors
- Such as in butterflies for protection
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• Camouflage
- colorings/coverings making them blend to their environment such as in tiger, deer and chameleon
Some Animal Physical Adaptations
Thick fur
- Keeping animals warm such as in bears
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when an animal looks very much like another animal or object to avoid predators such as stick bugs, ladybird (beetle)
Mimicry
Some Animal Physical Adaptations
Lungs and limbs
- Such as in amphibians, the gradual shift from water to land habitats
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Other Body Parts
- Long neck to grab or reach food such as in giraffes and goose
Natural Selection
Natural Selection
- Passing of traits for survival to generation to come, a mechanism that drives adaptations
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Some Inherited/Instinct/Behavioral Adaptations
Hibernation- slowing down body functions such as bears, hamsters, hedgehogs
- Playing Dead such as opossums, beetles, house spiders
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Migration
- Migrate/move to safer place when weather change such as in butterflies, fish and birds
Some Inherited/Instinct/Behavioral Adaptations
An elephant crying when a member of its herd dies
Hiding
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Sounds
- dog barking at a stranger at the door of your house