1. Adaptations
EQ: How can an organism’s structure, behavior, or physiological adaptations be used to predict if the organism can survive in a particular environment? 
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2. What is an ADAPTATION?
An adaptation is any characteristic that improves an individual’s ability to survive and reproduce in a particular environment.
All species have experienced adaptation and will continue to slowly adapt as the next generations are born.

3. We can separate adaptations into 2 categories:
Physical adaptations- changes to body structures that allow an animal to find and consume food, defend itself, and to reproduce.
- Physical adaptations help an animal survive in its environment.

4. Examples of Physical Adaptations:
Chameleon:
Camouflage- use of color in a surrounding

5. Woodpecker: Sharply- pointed beak to drill holes

6. Porcupine: quills to protect against predators

7. Duck:
webbed feet

8. Mimicry (looking or sounding like another living organism)

9. Chemical defenses (like venom, ink, sprays)

11. 2. Behavioral adaptations- The way an animal acts or behaves to stay alive.
Behavioral Adaptations allow animals to respond to life needs.

12. Snowy Egret: will stand still in the water with its wings stretched out, because fish are attracted to the shade.

13. Migration

14. Hibernation

15. We can divide Behavioral Adaptations into two groups:
1. Instinctive behaviors happen naturally (passed on genetically) and don’t need to be taught or learned.
Examples: Methods of gathering & storing food, defending oneself, hibernating, migrating, raising young, finding shelter, etc.

16. Examples of Instinctive Behaviors:

18. 2. Learned Behaviors
Learned behaviors come from experience and are not present in an animal at its birth.
They are not born knowing how to do these things.

19. Examples of Learned Behaviors