1. Habitats and Adaptations Target 3rd Grade

2. Content Topics
Biomes (Habitats)
Adaptations
Inheritance

3. Biome (Habitat)
A biome is a major terrestrial or aquatic life zone, characterized by:
the physical environment including vegetation and precipitation

4. Tropical Rainforest:
Temperature range
Precipitation

5. Savanna:
Temperature range
Precipitation
Fire

6. Desert:
Temperature range
Precipitation

7. Chaparral (Specific to California):
Temperature range
Precipitation
Fire

8. Temperate grassland:
Temperature range
Precipitation
Fire

9. Temperate Deciduous Forest – Fall season
Temperature range
Precipitation

10. Deciduous Forest in winter

11. Coniferous Forest:
Temperature range
Precipitation

12. Tundra:
Temperature range
Precipitation

13. Sample Questions:
Which Biome do you think has the most animals and plants? Why?
Do you think animals and plants need to have special features (adaptations) to live in different habitats?

14. Adaptations
Adaptations are features of animals and plants that make them survive longer in their environment.
Organisms adapt to their environment to become better fitted to survive and pass their genes on to the next generation through reproduction.

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16. Animal
Camouflage

17. Sample Questions: Can you see any animals in these pictures?
If you were a predator would you be able to pick out your dinner easily in these pictures?

18. Inheritance and Survival
Inheritance - is the process of genetic traits being passes from parent to offspring.
Survival – is to live or exist.

19. Inheritance and Survival
What do you notice?

20. Predator captures easy prey
Remaining mice reproduce

21. Higher proportion of white mice in successive generations
Surviving individuals reproduce
Killed by predator
Higher proportion of white mice in successive generations

22. Sample Questions What if the environment changes?
What will happen to the population of mice?

23. NGSS Standard:
3-LS4-3 - Construct an argument with evidence that in a particular habitat some organisms can survive well, some survive less well, and some cannot survive at all.