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Animal Adaptations

2. Have you ever wondered how animals are able to survive in the wild?
Animals have certain ______________ that help them to survive.

3. Think about the way you dress in the winter.
You don’t wear your shorts and bathing suit when it’s snowing outside!
You wear ____________________, and maybe even a ________ and __________ to protect yourself from the weather.

4. And what if you are having a snowball fight?
You probably ____________from the person throwing at you, and maybe even try to ___________on that person and throw some snowballs!

5. The way you dress in the winter, as well as the way that you run and hide from someone throwing snow at you are kinds of …
___________

6. We can separate adaptations into two categories:
_________
and
___________

7. ________________ help an animal survive in its environment.
Physical adaptations
are _________________
__________________________________________
Hey! I’m a walking stick. I look just like a stick you’d find. the ground.
________________ help an animal survive in its environment.

8. ______________ (use of color in a surrounding)
Physical adaptation
______________ (use of color in a surrounding)
The chameleon can change its color to match its surroundings. Can you do that?

9. (looking or sounding like another living organism)
Physical adaptation
________________
(looking or sounding like another living organism)
The Viceroy butterfly uses _____________ to look like the Monarch butterfly. Can you tell them apart?
I’m the Viceroy!
Not poisonous
Poisonous
I’m the Monarch!

10. _________________(like venom, ink, and sprays)
Physical adaptation
_________________(like venom, ink, and sprays)

11. Physical Adaptations
Body coverings & parts (claws, ________, feet, armor plates, skulls, teeth)
The elephant’s ___________ is a physical adaptation that helps it to clean itself, eat, drink, and to pick things up.

12. Behavioral Adaptations…
Now let’s learn about
Behavioral Adaptations…
_____________________allow animals to respond to life needs.

13. Behavioral Adaptations are the animal’s actions.
Remember that Physical Adaptations are _________________.
Each organism has unique methods of __________ to its ____________ by means of different actions.

14. We can divide Behavioral Adaptations into two groups:
____________
_____________
These behaviors __________ ____________ & don’t have to be _____________.
These behaviors must be ______________.

15. = _________ behaviors happen naturally & don’t need to be learned
Methods of gathering & storing food
______________
Finding shelter
______________
_______________
Raising young

16. Obtained by __________ with the __________ and _________ be passed on to the next generation except by ____________.
_________ behaviors =

17. In this lesson, we have learned about animal adaptations.
There are 2 ways to describe adaptations:
__________________
and
_________________

18. Physical adaptations are body structures.
Some examples of physical adaptations are:
_________________________
_________________
____________________________
____________________________________

19. Behavioral Adaptations are animals’ actions.
Behavioral Adaptations can be
_____________ or _____________.

20. The next time you read about an animal in the wild, or when you see one on television, think about its ____________….