Adaptations and Traits of Organisms Final Assessment-

Animal Power point

By: Noey De Rooy

Animal: Sugar Glider

March 13, 2013

MammalsHave lungs and breathe air.

Feed their young milk from the females body.

Give live birth.

Example: Dog and Cat

BirdsHatch from eggs.

Have feathers.

Are warm blooded.

Example: Kiwi bird

FishBreath through gills.

Are cold blooded.

Have fins and scales.

Live in water.

Example: mandarin fish

ReptilesAre cold blooded.

Have scaly skin.

Hatch from eggs.

Example: Water dragon

Amphibians

Have a backbone.

Cold-blooded Their skin is smooth and moist

Breathe through skin and lungs sometimes.

Example:Orange Newt

AdaptationsI would say that Adaptations would be like changing to

your surroundings. Like this rabbit has his winter coat on. He is adapting to winter. If you don’t adapt to your surroundings you might die. Lets say its winter, and I’m wearing shorts and a T-shirt. If I stay out in the cold for too long, I can die from being to cold. My body temperature will go down. Like I said I will die.

Species Adaptation and Individual AdaptationSpecies Adaptation and Individual Adaptation

Species Adaptation are when the whole species have it or can do the same thing. Like a dog, for example. A dog has a nose, every dog has a nose. So that would be Species Adaptation. Individual Adaptation would be when a wolf becomes the alpha male of a pack. That would be examples of Individual Adaptation and Species Adaptation. That’s all for this slide.

CamouflageFor most animals camouflage is their way of life.They need to blend into their background to escape and stay hidden from prey or predators. A rabbit might need to stay hidden from an animal like a owl, or a owl might need to stay hidden so that it can catch the rabbit.

Example: Black rabbit

Hibernation

Hibernation is when animals go to sleep for the winter. Like these hedgehogs.

Example:hedgehogs

MIGRATION

Migration is when a animal leaves to go to warmer temperatures. Just like a flock of birds. They would go to someplace like the south for winter. In spring the birds would fly north.

Example: geese

Mimicry

Mimicry is when you copy the background of your surroundings or the pattern of another animal’s colors. Also tree branches, leaves.

Examples:toads,caterpillar

Genetics and Heredity

Genetics is the study of Heredity. Heredity is what you inherit from your mom, or dad. For example, I inherited my dad’s eyes. I also inherited his skin color.

Inherited Traits

Inherited traits are when you Inherit or, get something from your mom or dad. Example: you can get diseases,hair color, skin color, and many more. You can get all of those from your family.

NON-INHERITED TRAITS

Non-inherited traits are traits that you acquired. They are traits that you do not inherit from your ancestors. One example is, your mom has brown hair, she had that all her live. But when you were born you had brown hair. Then you got blond hair. The second example is, your dad doesn’t know how to ride a bike. But you do.

FOSSILS

Fossils are remains of what had lived on the planet before people. Information that fossils give us are about animals that have lived a long time ago. Like the dinosaurs. Some scientist have found fossils of dinosaurs.

My animal, the SUGAR GLIDER

Sugar glider’s habitat

My animal is a tree dwelling animal. It lives in a group to about 15 to 30 Sugar Gliders. The Sugar Glider can take any area where there are tree hollows for shelter, and plenty of food.

Distinct characteristics my animal has

•It has a black-tipped tail, a black line down its back, (ending with an arrow on the head) and comes in many other colors. Like cinnamon, red-brown and, most commonly, gray.

•It has a membrane of skin which stretches from the fifth "finger" of each hand to the first toe of each foot, which enables it to glide between treetops. It does not fly, but is capable of gliding up to 100m.

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