Animal Adaptations Power Point

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Animal Adaptations

By Miss Hayes

2009



Adaptations, Habitats, Biomes

Essential Questions Read through the following presentation with your group and teacher. See

if you can answer these questions by the end

What is an adaptation?

What is the difference between physical and behavioral adaptations?

What is a biome? What are the major biomes?

What kinds of animals belong to each biome?

How do biomes affect animal adaptations?

How to animal adaptations change over time?




How a person or animal changes or “adapts” to survive.

We change how we dress. When the weather gets coldwe wear coats and long pants. Similar to this animals

must adapt to changes in their surroundings.

What do all animals need?

Air (oxygen), water, shelter, food

What animals do or how they behave to get these needs

is called an adaptation.



Physical Adaptations

Physical adaptations may be how many fingers an animal has, how thick its fur it, orhow it changes to attract a mate.

Physical adaptations do not form overnight. They can take hundreds of years totransform and usually change because of the climate.

With today’s constantly changing environment, animals habitats or living places arechanging.

An animal has to readjust to that new surrounding or climate. If they can’t theanimal dies.

You will learn more about how climate changes and then with time it forces animalsto change and adapt later in this lesson.



Adaptations- Physical

Mimicry The Viceroy Butterfly mimics the

Monarch. The Monarch is poisonous

and birds know not to eat it. The

Viceroy is not poisonous but because it

looks similar, many animals will not eat

it. What other animals use mimicry?

Camouflage The chameleon’s light brown coloring

keeps it safe from harm. It matches the

trees and brush it lives in so predators

cannot see it. The chameleon onlychanges color when in immediate

danger. What other animals use

camouflage?



Adaptations- Physical

Defense

Bombardier beetle- a beetle that has a

special defense feature. It mixes two

chemicals in its body and shoots thechemicals mixed in its body from its

abdomen at predators for protection.

The skunk uses a special musk to spray

when it feels it is facing danger.



Behavioral Adaptations

Migration This is when animals move from oneplace to another in search of food or

to find a warmer place to live.

Hibernation/Estivation When an animal goes in a dormant or

inactive state to avoid extremely cold

weather conditions. Brown bears

hibernate in the winter. Estivation is thesame as hibernation but is done by

animals trying to avoid very hot

conditions.



Behavioral Adaptation- Caring for an animals’

young

Crèche Crèche is the term used for how amother duck leads her ducklings asshe searches for food. In a crècheone female leads the group ofducklings and the other trails in theback guarding them from danger.This can be considered an adaptationused to care for the young.

Spiders have many spider eggs at onetime; therefore they cannot all live inthe same area. As a special

adaptation and means of survival young spiders find a pace to live byballooning. They raise their abdomenor rear, spin a long strand of silk andlet the breeze carry them to a newhome.



Adaptations are everywhere!

There are many more types of adaptations both physicaland behavioral. What other kinds of adaptations ofanimals do you know?

You will use the following WebQuest to find even moreadaptations!

Now it’s time to learn about where these animals live andhow that affects their adaptations.



BiomesThere are six major types of biomes where all animals

could live and “adapt” to in order to survive.Freshwater -Includes wetlands, streams and rivers, ponds and lakes.

Animals that live here require low salt intake. Temperature of the waterchanges drastically with the seasons.

(fish such as catfish, shrimp. ducks, turtles, snakes, birds)

Marine – Cover about 75% of Earth’s surface. Marine includes oceans,estuaries, and coral reef. High salt concentrations.

(mammals such as dolphins and whales, crabs, worms, octopuses)

Desert –Cover about 20% of Earth’s surface. Few animals live in very hotdeserts because the desert offers little protections from the hot sun. Semi-arid, coastal, coastal, and cold deserts contain more animals.

(rabbits, skunks, owls, snakes, jack rabbits, mice, coyotes, and badgers)

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibits/biomes/freshwater.php

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibits/biomes/marine.php

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibits/biomes/deserts.php

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibits/biomes/forests.php












Biomes- Continued

Forest (Taiga)- There are three types. tropical, temperate, and boreal.Tropical-near equator(birds, bats, small mammals.)

Temperate-eastern North America, northeastern Asia, and western and central Europe(squirrels, rabbits, skunks, birds, deer, mountain lion, bobcat, timber wolf, fox, and black bear.)

Boreal-short, moist summers, long cold winters

(hawks, small mammals, bats, lynx, bears)

Grassland– Two types savannah and temperate (includes prairies). Africa, India, South America.(Savannah-giraffes, zebras, buffaloes, kangaroos, mice, moles, gophers, ground squirrels, snakes, worms,

termites, beetles, lions, leopards, hyenas, and elephants.)

(Temperate- gazelles, zebras, rhinoceroses, wild horses, lions, wolves, prairie dogs, jack rabbits, deer, mice,coyotes, foxes, skunks, badgers, blackbirds, quails, sparrows, hawks, owls, snakes, grasshoppers, andspiders)





Biomes- Continued

Tundra- Two types; Arctic and Alpine. Arctic is coldest of all biomes. Tundrameans “treeless.” characterized by short growing seasons and reproduction seasons.

Arctic- Northern Hemisphere, North Pole

(lemmings, caribou, arctic hares, squirrels, arctic foxes, wolves, polar bears, snowbuntings, falcons, loons, terns, snow birds, mosquitoes, flies, moths, grasshoppers,

black flies, salmon, and trout)Alpine- very high mountaintops of Alaska and Washington.

(marmots, mountain goats, sheep, elk, beetles, grasshoppers, butterflies)

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibits/biomes/tundra.php





How did you do?


What is the difference between physical and behavioral adaptations?

What is a biome? What are the major biomes?

What kinds of animals belong to each biome?

How do biomes affect animal adaptations?

How to animal adaptations change over time?



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Biome pictureshttp://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/exhibits/biomes/index.php

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