1. Survival in an Ecosystem

2. Adaptations
A physical or behavioral characteristic that enables an organism to survive and reproduce in its environment.

3. Physical Adaptations
All animals live in habitats. Habitats provide food, water, and shelter which animals need to survive, but there is more to survival than just the habitat. Animals also depend on their physical features to help them obtain food, keep safe, build homes, withstand weather, and attract mates.

4. Protection Stickers on plants such as cactus or roses
Camouflage abilities and bright colors to warn predators
Poisonous plants and animals
Bad taste and/or scent

5. Food Gathering Carnivores or omnivores with sharp teeth
Herbivores with jaws and teeth for gathering and chewing vegetation
Long necks on giraffes to reach high leaves

6. Locomotion Long arms, legs and tail on a monkey
Webbed feet on ducks and other aquatic birds
Fins on fish
Suction cups on frogs’ feet

7. Reproduction Size of animal; largest male in the herd Coloring
Brightly colored plants to attract insects
Markings allow members of the same species to recognize each other
Scent

8. Camouflage
The ability of an animal to blend with its surroundings for protection

9. Symbiosis
A relationship between different types of organisms over time

10. Reptile Adaptations breathe through lungs,
have an internal skeleton with a central backbone (vertebrate)
are cold-blooded (body temperature is directly related to its surroundings).

11. Instinct
An inherited behavior in an organism

12. Learned behavior
Those that are acquired through experience and not inherited from parents

13. Animal Adaptations