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How are animals able to survive in the wild?
Animals have certain adaptations that help
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How do you dress in the winter?
You wear warm clothes to protect yourself from the
weather.
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What if you are having a snowball fight?
You probably run away if someone is hitting you with
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The way you dress in the winter, and if you run and hide from someone throwing
snow at you are kinds of …
Adaptations.
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We can separate adaptations into two categories:
Physical AND Behavioral
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Question: What are the two types of Adaptations?
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Answer: Physical and Behavioral
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Physical adaptations
are body shapes and colors that allow an animal to find food, defend itself, and to
reproduce.
Physical adaptations help an animal survive.
Hey! I’m a walking
stick. I look just like a
stick you’d find on the
ground.
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Physical adaptation
Camouflage (use of color in a surrounding)
The chameleon can change its color to match its surroundings. Can you do that?
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Mimicry (looking or sounding like another living
organism)
The Viceroy butterfly uses mimicry to look like the Monarch butterfly. Can you tell them apart?
Poisonous
Not poisonous
Physical adaptation
I’m the Monarch!
I’m the Viceroy!
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Question: What term means “to look or sound like another organism?
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Answer: Mimicry
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Chemical defenses (like venom, ink, sprays)
Physical adaptation
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Body coverings & parts (claws, beaks, feet, armor plates, skulls, teeth)
Physical adaptations
The elephant’s trunk is a physical adaptation that helps it to clean itself, eat, drink, and to pick
things up.
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Now let’s learn about
Behavioral Adaptations allow animals to respond to
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Behavioral Adaptations…
Each animal has methods of adapting by doing different
actions.
Behavioral Adaptations are animals’ actions.
Flying hibernating
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Fill in the blank: _________ adaptations are animals’ actions they developed to survive. (to get the answer, click mouse)
Answer: behavioral adaptations
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We can divide Behavioral Adaptations into two groups:
Instinctive Learned
These behaviors happen naturally & don’t have to
be learned.
These behaviors must be taught.
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Instinctive behaviors happen
naturally & don’t need to
be learned
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Finding shelter
Gathering & storing food Defending
oneself
Raising young
Hibernating
Migrating
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Fill in the blank: Hibernating is an example of an ________ behavior. (to get the answer, click mouse)
Answer: instinctive behavior
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Learned behaviors
Must be learned by experience, or taught to you by
parents.
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So to review . . . In this lesson, we have learned about
animal adaptationsanimal adaptations..
There are 2 ways to describe adaptations:
Physical and Behavioral
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Physical adaptations are body structures.
Some examples of physical adaptations are:
Camouflage
Mimicry
Body coverings & parts
Chemical defenses
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Question: Name at least two physical adaptations
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Answer:
- Camouflage
- Mimicry
- Chemical defense
- Body covering and parts
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Behavioral Adaptations are animals’ actions.
Behavioral Adaptations can be
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Instinctiveor
Learned.
The next time you read about an
animal in the wild, or when you see
one on television, think
about its adaptations….
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