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2. 2. Why Do Animals Have Adaptations? Animals inherit special physical features and behaviours that help them survive. Can you think of any characteristics and behaviours that you have inherited?
3. 3. An adaptation can be a behaviour like a bear hibernating. Can you think of any behaviours that help animals to help survive?
4. 4. Animals also have physical adaptations Can you see the physical adaptations that the Silky Ant Eater has?
5. 5. An Adaptation is a physical feature or behavior that helps an animal get food, protect itself, move, or reproduce. Sometimes there are not enough resources to go around. Animals with excellent adaptations have a better chance of survival because they can get the resources they need.
6. 6. Feathers are an important adaptation. Without feathers, birds couldnt fly, no matter how light there bodies are. The shape of its beak helps a bird get food. See some examples of a birds beak.
7. 7. Other animals have adaptations that help them survive. Click on the picture to see the adaptation.
8. 8. Some animals have adaptations that help them avoid being eaten by predators. (See some examples) Bright colors may warn predators that the animal is poisonous. (See some examples) Some animals are protected by stingers, quills, bitter tasting flesh, or smelly sprays. (See some examples) Some animals have hard shells or spiny skins. (See some examples)
9. 9. Animals have different ways of moving. The faster they are, the more easily they can escape from their predators. Birds' wings allow them to fly away from predators that cannot fly. Fins enable fish to swim away from their enemies. Other animals can run at top speed longer than their enemies can.
10. 10. Instincts help animals meet their needs. Instincts are behaviors that are inherited. Ducklings, for example, are born with the instinct to follow their mother. By staying close to her, they get the protection and food they need.
11. 11. In places where winters are cold, many animals face a shortage of food for part of the year. Some animals deal with this food shortage by migrating. Migration is traveling in search of food or a place to reproduce. During the spring and summer, Canada geese live in Canada and the upper United States and migrate as far south as Mexico in the winter.
12. 12. Hibernation is a state of inactivity during winter. It allows animals to conserve energy. They get their energy from conserved energy.
13. 13. A B C Bright colors warn predators that the animal is poisonous. protected by stingers, quills, bitter tasting flesh, or smelly sprays. Some animals have hard shells or spiny skins. Click the that applies to the animal?
14. 14. Bright colors warn predators that the animal is poisonous. protected by stingers, quills, bitter tasting flesh, or smelly sprays. Some animals have hard shells or spiny skins. A B C Click the that applies to the animal?
15. 15. Bright colors warn predators that the animal is poisonous. protected by stingers, quills, bitter tasting flesh, or smelly sprays. Some animals have hard shells or spiny skins. A B C Click the that applies to the animal?
16. 16. Bright colors warn predators that the animal is poisonous. protected by stingers, quills, bitter tasting flesh, or smelly sprays. Some animals have hard shells or spiny skins. A B C Click the that applies to the animal?
17. 17. Adaptation Hibernation Migration Escaping predators instinct A(n) _________ is a physical feature or behavior that helps an animal get food, protect itself, move, or reproduce.
18. 18. Adaptation Hibernation Migration Escaping predators instinct Fins enable fish to swim away from their enemies.
19. 19. Adaptation Hibernation Migration Escaping predators instinct _______ are behaviors that are inherited and help an animal meet their needs.
20. 20. Adaptation Hibernation Migration Escapingfile://l ocalhost/Users /natalie/Deskt op/ sorry.pptx - 1. PowerPoint Presentation predators instinct ____________ is traveling in search of food or a place to reproduce.
21. 21. Adaptation Hibernation Migration Escaping predators instinct _____________ is a state of in activity that occurs in some animals when outside temperatures are cold.
22. 22. Examples of bird beaks Hummingbirds have long sharp beaks so they can get deep Into a flower for nectar
23. 23. Examples of bird beaks Finches eat mostly seeds. Their beaks are made for crackling shells of seeds
24. 24. Examples of bird beaks Herons long sharp beaks are perfect for spearing fish.
25. 25. Pelicans have a pouch like beak that can expand to scoop up fish Examples of bird beaks
26. 26. The Ocelot has a striped and spotted coat which varies in the different habitats they live in. Their coats act as camouflage when hunting. They have strong and sharp claws to help them climb trees which serves as their get-away from predators. Their claws also help them with hunting. The most surprising adaption they have by far is their webbed feet which makes them very strong swimmers.
27. 27. Flounder They are different from most other fish. Both of its eyes are on the same side of its flat body, the top side.
28. 28. Their elaborate designs and hues are deliberately ostentatious to ward off potential predators Poisoned Dart Frog
29. 29. Rock Ptarmigan in winter Rock Ptarmigan in summer
30. 30. Bright Colours Coral Snake Mandarin Fish
31. 31. Stingers, quills Scorpion Jellyfish
32. 32. Hard shells or spiny skins Baby HedgeHog Box Turtle