1. Sunken Lesson Animal Adaptations
4th and 5th Grades
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2. Vocabulary
Adaptation: any body part, behavior, or physiological capability that increases an animal's ability to survive in its environment.
Behavior: - anything an animal does involving action and/or response to stimulation.

3. Vocabulary
Biome : The world's major communities, classified according to the predominant vegetation and characterized by adaptation of organisms to that particular environment.

4. Confusing its Predators
Counter Shading: dark and light colors are a form of camouflage.
A single zebra is hard for a lion to pick out in the herd.

5. Vocabulary
Conservation: taking care of our environment by wisely managing its resources
Ecosystem: a unit of plants, animals, and nonliving components of an environment that interact.
Environment: the total surroundings and forces that act upon a living thing.

6. Vocabulary
Endangered species: a species of plant or animal of which numbers are decreasing at an alarming rate and is threatened with extinction by human-made or natural changes in the environment.
Extinct: no longer existing on the Earth.
Habitat: the place where an animal lives.

7. Camouflage
                                                                                                                                                
Camouflage: coloration that blends in with the surrounding environment.

8. Habitat
Each Habitat creates its own environment unique to each animal.

9. Endangered Species
Animals that fail to adapt may become endangered or even extinct.
Lack of conservation or mismanagement of land, water, and air can cause extinction.

10. Other Adaptations Bird Beaks Feet or claws Hibernation Migration
Coloration