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How are animals able to survive in the wild?

Animals have certain adaptations that help

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How do you dress in the winter?

You wear warm clothes to protect yourself from the

weather.

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What if you are having a snowball fight?

You probably run away if someone is hitting you with

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The way you dress in the winter, and if you run and hide from someone throwing

snow at you are kinds of …

Adaptations.

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We can separate adaptations into two categories:

Physical AND Behavioral

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Question: What are the two types of Adaptations?

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Answer: Physical and Behavioral

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Physical adaptations

are body shapes and colors that allow an animal to find food, defend itself, and to

reproduce.

Physical adaptations help an animal survive.

Hey! I’m a walking

stick. I look just like a

stick you’d find on the

ground.

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Physical adaptation

Camouflage (use of color in a surrounding)

The chameleon can change its color to match its surroundings. Can you do that?

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Mimicry (looking or sounding like another living

organism)

The Viceroy butterfly uses mimicry to look like the Monarch butterfly. Can you tell them apart?

Poisonous

Not poisonous

Physical adaptation

I’m the Monarch!

I’m the Viceroy!

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Question: What term means “to look or sound like another organism?

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Answer: Mimicry

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Chemical defenses (like venom, ink, sprays)

Physical adaptation

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Body coverings & parts (claws, beaks, feet, armor plates, skulls, teeth)

Physical adaptations

The elephant’s trunk is a physical adaptation that helps it to clean itself, eat, drink, and to pick

things up.

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Now let’s learn about

Behavioral Adaptations allow animals to respond to

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Behavioral Adaptations…

Each animal has methods of adapting by doing different

actions.

Behavioral Adaptations are animals’ actions.

Flying hibernating

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Fill in the blank: _________ adaptations are animals’ actions they developed to survive. (to get the answer, click mouse)

Answer: behavioral adaptations

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We can divide Behavioral Adaptations into two groups:

Instinctive Learned

These behaviors happen naturally & don’t have to

be learned.

These behaviors must be taught.

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Instinctive behaviors happen

naturally & don’t need to

be learned

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Finding shelter

Gathering & storing food Defending

oneself

Raising young

Hibernating

Migrating

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Fill in the blank: Hibernating is an example of an ________ behavior. (to get the answer, click mouse)

Answer: instinctive behavior

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Learned behaviors

Must be learned by experience, or taught to you by

parents.

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So to review . . . In this lesson, we have learned about

animal adaptationsanimal adaptations..

There are 2 ways to describe adaptations:

Physical and Behavioral

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Physical adaptations are body structures.

Some examples of physical adaptations are:

Camouflage

Mimicry

Body coverings & parts

Chemical defenses

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Question: Name at least two physical adaptations

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Answer:

- Camouflage

- Mimicry

- Chemical defense

- Body covering and parts

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Behavioral Adaptations are animals’ actions.

Behavioral Adaptations can be

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Instinctiveor

Learned.

The next time you read about an

animal in the wild, or when you see

one on television, think

about its adaptations….

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