sunken lesson animal adaptations
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Sunken Lesson Animal Adaptations. 4 th and 5 th Grades. Vocabulary. Adaptation : any body part, behavior, or physiological capability that increases an animal's ability to survive in its environment. Behavior : - anything an animal does involving action and/or response to stimulation. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Sunken LessonAnimal Adaptations
4th and 5th Grades
Vocabulary• Adaptation: any body part,
behavior, or physiological capability that increases an animal's ability to survive in its environment.
• Behavior: - anything an animal does involving action and/or response to stimulation.
VocabularyVocabulary
• Biome : The world's major communities, classified according to the predominant vegetation and characterized by adaptation of organisms to that particular environment.
Confusing its Predators• Counter Shading: dark and light
colors are a form of camouflage.• A single zebra is hard for a lion to
pick out in the herd.
Vocabulary• Conservation: taking care of our
environment by wisely managing its resources
• Ecosystem: a unit of plants, animals, and nonliving components of an environment that interact.
• Environment: the total surroundings and forces that act upon a living thing.
Vocabulary• Endangered species: a species of
plant or animal of which numbers are decreasing at an alarming rate and is threatened with extinction by human-made or natural changes in the environment.
• Extinct: no longer existing on the Earth.
• Habitat: the place where an animal lives.
Camouflage• Camouflage: coloration that
blends in with the surrounding environment.
Habitat• Each Habitat creates its own
environment unique to each animal.
Endangered Species• Animals that fail to adapt may
become endangered or even extinct.• Lack of conservation or
mismanagement of land, water, and air can cause extinction.
Other Adaptations• Bird Beaks• Feet or claws• Hibernation• Migration• Coloration