1. How animals survive in their habitat!
Animal Adaptations
How animals survive in their habitat!

2. How do adaptations help animals survive in their environment?
An adaptation is a body part or behavior that helps an animal survive in a particular environment.
Adaptation can help an animal breathe, catch food, or hide.
All animals are adapted to live in certain habitats.
Animals that cannot adapt will die out.

3. Two Categories of Adaptations
Physical or Behavioral

4. Physical Adaptations
Physical adaptations are body structures that allow an animal to find and consume food, defend itself, and to reproduce its species.
Examples include:
Mimicry Camouflage Chemical Defenses Body Coverings

5. (looking or sounding like another living organism)
Physical Adaptations
Mimicry
(looking or sounding like another living organism)
The Viceroy butterfly uses mimicry to look like the Monarch butterfly. Can you tell them apart?
I’m the Viceroy!
I’m the Monarch!

6. Camouflage (use of color in a surrounding)
Physical Adaptations
Camouflage (use of color in a surrounding)

7. Chemical defenses (like venom, ink, sprays)
Physical Adaptations
Chemical defenses (like venom, ink, sprays)

8. Physical Adaptations
Body parts or covering

9. Behavioral Adaptations
Behavioral Adaptations allow animals to respond to life needs.
They can either be:
Learned behaviors or Instinctual Behaviors

10. Name that Adaptation:
Poison Dart Frog
Mimicry?
Camouflage?
Chemical?

11. Name that Adaptation:
Zebras
Mimicry?
Camouflage?
Chemical?

12. Name that Adaptation
Scarlet King Snake
Mimicry?
Camouflage?
Chemical?

13. Name that Adaptation
Camp robber birds making nests near campsites Learned behavior? Instinctual Behavior?

14. Name that Adaptation
Geese flying south for the winter Learned behavior? Instinctual Behavior?