Transcript TRAITS that help organisms meet their basic needs

Animal & Plant
adaptations
What is Adaptation?
• TRAITS that help organisms meet
their basic needs and SURVIVE in
their SURROUNDINGS.
• Plants and Animals need
PROTECTION from some things
around them.
–What are some of those things?
2 Types of Adaptations
• STRUCTURAL
–How the plant or animal is
made.
• BEHAVIORAL
–How the organism acts or
behaves
EXAMPLES of
Structural
KANGAROO
Pouch
Woodpecker
beak and feet
Poison dart
frog alarming
color!
Cactus waxy
coating, thorns
and wide roots
Examples of
Behavioral
Herding Instinct
when scared
Migrating Monarchs
to Mexico
Alarmed posture
Migrating
Geese
Bird
building
nest
ADAPTATIONS Cont’
•Mimicry
•Camouflage
•Hibernation
•Migration
adaptations
Structural
Camouflage
Behavioral
Mimicry
Playing
possum
Walking stick,
caterpillar blending
into green leaves,
lizard blending into
surroundings
Coral snake vs. King
Snake
Monarch butterfly
vs. Viceroy butterfly
Burrowing Training
a dog
rabbit
CONCLUSION
• DO YOU HAVE ANY OTHER
EXAMPLES OF BEHAVIORAL?
STRUCTURAL?
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Not Dead, just faking to stay
alive.
Going underground for SAFETY
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Learned behavior – not born
knowing how to do these
tricks
adaptations
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