sunken lesson animal adaptations
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Sunken Lesson Animal Adaptations. 4 th and 5 th Grades. Vocabulary. Adaptation : any body part, behavior, or physiological capability that increases an animal's ability to survive in its environment. Behavior : - anything an animal does involving action and/or response to stimulation. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Sunken LessonAnimal Adaptations
4th and 5th Grades
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Vocabulary• Adaptation: any body part,
behavior, or physiological capability that increases an animal's ability to survive in its environment.
• Behavior: - anything an animal does involving action and/or response to stimulation.
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VocabularyVocabulary
• Biome : The world's major communities, classified according to the predominant vegetation and characterized by adaptation of organisms to that particular environment.
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Confusing its Predators• Counter Shading: dark and light
colors are a form of camouflage.• A single zebra is hard for a lion to
pick out in the herd.
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Vocabulary• Conservation: taking care of our
environment by wisely managing its resources
• Ecosystem: a unit of plants, animals, and nonliving components of an environment that interact.
• Environment: the total surroundings and forces that act upon a living thing.
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Vocabulary• Endangered species: a species of
plant or animal of which numbers are decreasing at an alarming rate and is threatened with extinction by human-made or natural changes in the environment.
• Extinct: no longer existing on the Earth.
• Habitat: the place where an animal lives.
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Camouflage• Camouflage: coloration that
blends in with the surrounding environment.
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Habitat• Each Habitat creates its own
environment unique to each animal.
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Endangered Species• Animals that fail to adapt may
become endangered or even extinct.• Lack of conservation or
mismanagement of land, water, and air can cause extinction.
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Other Adaptations• Bird Beaks• Feet or claws• Hibernation• Migration• Coloration