1. Survival!!!! What’s the point?
I can tell that living things can only survive in environments that meet their needs.
I can describe the basic needs of living things.
I can explain that ecosystems can change and only animals that adapt survive.

2. What do all organisms need to survive?
Water
Food
Shelter
Air
Space
Waste disposal
(get rid of waste)

3. Have you ever wondered how animals are able to survive in the wild and meet their needs?
Animals have certain adaptations- special characteristics that help them to survive.

4. Think about the way you dress in the winter.
You don’t wear your shorts and bathing suit when it’s snowing outside!
You wear warm clothes, and maybe even a hat and mittens to protect yourself from the weather.

5. And what if you are having a snowball fight?
You probably run away from the person throwing at you, and maybe even try to sneak up on that person and throw some snowballs!

6. The way you dress in the winter, as well as the way that you run and hide from someone throwing snow at you are kinds of …
Adaptations.

7. Break for Appointment 1 1. What do organisms need to survive?
2. What are adaptations?
3. What is an example of a human adaptation?
4. Any questions??

8. We can separate adaptations into two categories:
Physical
AND
Behavioral

9. Physical adaptations help an animal survive in its environment.
are body structures that allow an animal to find and consume food, defend itself, and to reproduce its species.
Hey! I’m a walking stick. I look just like a stick you’d find on the ground.
Physical adaptations help an animal survive in its environment.

10. Camouflage (use of color in a surrounding)
Physical adaptation
Camouflage (use of color in a surrounding)
The chameleon can change its color to match its surroundings. Can you do that?

11. (looking or sounding like another living organism)
Physical adaptation
Mimicry
(looking or sounding like another living organism)
The Viceroy butterfly uses mimicry to look like the Monarch butterfly. Can you tell them apart?
I’m the Viceroy!
Not poisonous
Poisonous
I’m the Monarch!

12. Chemical defenses (like venom, ink, sprays)
Physical adaptation
Chemical defenses (like venom, ink, sprays)

13. Physical adaptations
Body coverings & parts (claws, beaks, feet, armor plates, skulls, teeth)
The elephant’s trunk is a physical adaptation that helps it to clean itself, eat, drink, and to pick things up.

14. Break for Appointment 2
Which physical adaptation do you think is most important for survival?
(camouflage, mimicry, body structures, or chemical defenses)
2. How do these adaptations help organisms meet their basic needs?
3. Questions???

15. Behavioral Adaptations…
Now let’s learn about
Behavioral Adaptations…
Behavioral Adaptations allow animals to respond to life needs.

16. Behavioral Adaptations are animals’ actions.
Remember that Physical Adaptations are body structures.
Each organism has unique methods of adapting to its environment by means of different actions.

17. Methods of gathering & storing food
Defending oneself
Finding shelter
Hibernating
Raising young
Migrating

18. Break for Appointment 3
1. Which type of behavioral adaptation do you think is most important for survival? (method of gathering food, defense, hibernation, migration, raising young, or finding shelter)
2. How do these help the organisms survive?
3. Questions???

19. Animal Adaptations Review
There are 2 ways to describe adaptations:
Behavioral
Physical
and

20. Behavioral adaptations are animals’ actions.
Some examples of behavioral adaptations are:
Finding Shelter
Hibernating
Migrating
Defense

21. Physical Adaptations are body structures.
Some examples of physical adaptations are:
Camouflage
Mimicry
Chemical defenses
Body Coverings & Parts

22. Examples of Adaptations

23. How does this aye-aye adapt?
What need(s) does it meet?

24. How does this Venus Fly Trap adapt? *plants have adaptations too!
What need(s) does it meet?

25. Questions?????

26. Designer Organism Steps:
Choose an ecosystem.
Design a new organism with at least 3 adaptations that will help it survive in that ecosystem.
Create the organism and name it.
Record the information about your organism on the Adaptations Information Sheet and write a descriptive paragraph about your organism.

27. Exit Ticket What are 3 things that all organisms need to survive?
Using the picture, name one adaptation and explain how it helps this chimpanzee survive.

28. Survival Part 2

29. How do organisms survive?
1. Adaptations
2. Competition
3. Symbiosis

30. Competition Contest among populations Organisms compete for:
Food
Water
Mates
Shelter
Space
Adaptations help organisms compete
“Survival of the Fittest”

31. Symbiosis Relationship between organisms Types:
1. Mutualism (Both organisms benefit)
Ex-ants and caterpillars
YouTube - Ant Caterpillar Mutualism
2. Commensalism (One organism benefits)
Ex-sharks and remoras
YouTube - Nurse shark & Remora
3. Parasitism (One organism benefits, the other is harmed)
Ex-bacteria, viruses