Sunken Lesson Animal Adaptations

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