1. created by Lily Coursey Spring 2010
Adaptation Adventure
created by
Lily Coursey
Spring 2010

2. Tennessee Curriculum Standards
Grade 2: Standard 2 – Interdependence
Conceptual Strand 2
All life is interdependent and interacts with the environment.
Guiding Question 2
How do living things interact with one another and with the non-living elements of their environment?
Grade Level Expectations:
GLE Investigate the habitats of different kinds of local plants and animals.
GLE Investigate living things found in different places.
GLE Identify basic ways that plants and animals depend on each other.
Checks for Understanding
 Draw or use pictures of a local environment to label the plants and animals.
 Investigate ways that plants and animals depend on each other.
 Construct a flow chart that demonstrates how plants, animals, and the environment interact to provide basic life requirements.

3. Directions Before you begin:
Divide into two equal teams: Team 1- Plants, Team 2- Animals.
Designate one player on each team to be score keeper. This person must print out the score card and keep a tally of the team’s points- instructions for printing on score card slide.
Action buttons: The left arrow button will take you back one The right arrow button will take you to the next step The home button will direct you back to the first slide
How to play:
To determine the order in which the teams will go, both teams will roll a die and whichever team rolls the highest number will go first.
The first team will click a circle on the game board and answer the question for that circle.
If the team answers the question correctly, the number on the circle will be the number of points given to the team (4pts-orange, 3pts-yellow, 2pts-blue, 1pt- brown).
If the team does not answer the question correctly, no points will be given to either team.
The next team will then click a new question (number on the circle will be brown) on the game board.
The teams will continue to answer questions and collect points until there are no more questions left.
The team with the most points WINS and will receive 2 bonus points on the next test! 

4. Score Card Team 1- Plants Team 2- Animals Printing score card:
4. Click OK
1. Click Esc key
5. Go to printer, pick up score card
2. Click Office button, then Print
6. Click Slide Show tab
3. Click the circle for Current Slide
7. Click Start from Current Slide.
Score Card
Team 1- Plants
Team 2- Animals
When the game is complete, hit the esc key and then exit out of power point (click the “X” at the top right corner). Add up all the team’s points and turn in your team’s score card. Make sure every team member’s name is listed on the back of the score card.

5. Game Board 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 3 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1

6. Why do consumers eat other living things?
Question 1
Why do consumers eat other living things?

7. They do not make their own food.
Answer 1
They do not make their own food.

8. Question 2
The term for living organisms that adapt to their environment is known as _________.

9. Answer 2
Interdependence

10. What is a group of several food chains that are connected?
Question 3
What is a group of several food chains that are connected?

11. Answer 3
Food Web

12. What is the job or role an organism has in its environment?
Question 4
What is the job or role an organism has in its environment?

13. Answer 4
Niche

14. Question 5
What are animals with hair or fur that breathe with body parts called lungs?

15. Answer 5
Mammals

16. What is the part of air that humans and other animals need to survive?
Question 6
What is the part of air that humans and other animals need to survive?

17. Answer 6
Oxygen

18. True or False? Ferns are producers.
Question 7
True or False? Ferns are producers.

19. Answer 7
True

20. What are animals with scaly skin?
Question 8
What are animals with scaly skin?

21. Answer 8
Reptiles

22. Do fish use lungs to breathe, like humans and other mammals?
Question 9
Do fish use lungs to breathe, like humans and other mammals?

23. No, fish use gills to breathe under water.
Answer 9
No, fish use gills to breathe under water.

24. Which part of a flower takes up water and nutrients from the soil?
Question 10
Which part of a flower takes up water and nutrients from the soil?

25. Answer 10
Roots

26. What is a characteristic that helps an organism survive?
Question 11
What is a characteristic that helps an organism survive?

27. Answer 11
Adaptation

28. Question 12
What is a living thing?

29. Something that is alive and capable of growth
Answer 12
Something that is alive and capable of growth

30. Question 13
True or False? Algae are usually found near wet places or bodies of water.

31. Answer 13
True
Algae

32. Question 14
True or False? The stem is the part of a plant that absorbs the sun’s energy.

33. Answer 14
False

34. Question 15
True or False? An ecosystem is only made up of all the living things in an environment.

35. Answer 15
False

36. What living thing pollinates flowers?
Question 16
What living thing pollinates flowers?

37. Answer 16
Bee
Bee pollinating flower

38. Is a snake a producer or consumer?
Question 17
Is a snake a producer or consumer?

39. Answer 17
Consumer

40. What is the environment of a plant or animal called?
Question 18
What is the environment of a plant or animal called?

41. Answer 18
Habitat

42. What is an animal that hunts and eats other animals?
Question 19
What is an animal that hunts and eats other animals?

43. Answer 19
Predator

44. Question 20
What is a living thing that makes its own food by using the sun’s energy?

45. Answer 20
Producer