1. Animal Physical Adaptations
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Animal Physical Adaptations
Essential Question: How do animals’ physical adaptations help them survive in their environments?

2. Animals have certain adaptations that help them to survive.
Have you ever wondered how animals are able to survive in the wild?
Animals have certain adaptations that help them to survive.

3. Physical adaptations help an animal survive in its environment.
are body structures that allow an animal to find and consume food, defend itself, and to reproduce its species.
Hey! I’m a walking stick. I look just like a stick you’d find on the ground. I am using disguise.
Physical adaptations help an animal survive in its environment.
© A. Weinberg

4. 1. Concealing Coloration
Coloration and protective resemblance allows an animal to blend into its environment. 
Another word for this might be camouflage. 
Their camouflage makes it hard for enemies to single out individuals.  

5. Frog (Concealing Coloration)

6. Fish (Concealing Coloration)

7. Moth (Concealing Coloration)

8. Alligator (Concealing Coloration)

9. 2. Disruptive Coloration (stripes, spots, & patterns) These creatures are colored so that their outline is broken up so that they will not stick out and be easily seen.

10. (Disruptive Coloration)
Zebra: Although it may be easy for you to find the zebras, lions are color blind and only see stripes that look like tall grass.
(Disruptive Coloration)

11. Disruptive Coloration

12. Disruptive Coloration

13. Similarities
What is similar about concealing coloration & disruptive coloration?

14. 3. Disguise These creatures blend in with their surroundings usually by their body shape.

15. Leaf Insect

16. Stonefish

17. Cuttlefish

18. Grasshopper

19. 4. Mimicry
These creatures look like other animals who are more dangerous than themselves.
I’m the Viceroy!
Not poisonous
Poisonous
I’m the Monarch!

20. Coral Snake and King Snake
Red touches black, you’re okay Jack.
Red touches Yellow, you’re a dead fellow.

21. Differences
What is different about mimicry & disguise?

22. Recall
What are 4 types of protective coloration?

23. 5. Chemical Defenses
like venom, ink, sprays

24. Snakes

25. Octopus

26. Box Jellyfish

27. claws, beaks, stingers, armor plates, horns, teeth, shells, etc.
6. Physical Structures
claws, beaks, stingers, armor plates, horns, teeth, shells, etc.
The elephant’s trunk is a physical adaptation that helps it to clean itself, eat, drink, and to pick things up.

28. Horns

29. Claws

30. Name the 6 kinds of adaptations that help an animal or plant survive.