1. How Living Things Meet their Needs
The Survival Game
How Living Things Meet their Needs

2. Adaptations
body parts or behaviors of living things that help them survive in a certain environment

3. Wings, Trunks, & Teeth body parts that help animals get food
Penguin’s wings are strong for paddling underwater.
Alligator Snapping Turtle swims with mouth open. It’s tongue looks like a worm.
Elephants use their tusks for drilling to underground water. They use their trunks to lift the water to their mouth.
Dogs use their tongue to scoop water into their mouth

4. Claws, Feathers, & Ears
Pocket gophers have large front teeth, sharp claws, and flexible bodies. This helps them dig tunnels.
body parts that are used as shelter or help them make shelters
The fluffy down on feathers help keep a bird warm.
The large ears of a fennec or elephant help keep it cool.

5. Behaviors for Survival
behaviors – ways living things respond to their environment
instinctive behaviors – behaviors that living things inherit from their parents
learned behaviors – develop after birth

6. Chasing & Cradling Instinctive Behaviors
crocodile cradle baby in mouth when danger is near
rattlesnake coils and strikes at danger
Learned Behaviors
wolf learns to catch food by chasing & playing with other pups and watching other wolves catch deer

7. Spinning & Shivering behaviors for getting food - spinning web
keep body temperature within certain range
- bask in sun
- seek shade
- shiver when cold

8. Wooly Mammoth (extinct) Snow Leopard (endangered)
Is It Ever Too Late?
extinct – dies out
endangered – few remaining, species is near extinction
To survive, an organism must be able to meet its needs in the environment where it lives.
Wooly Mammoth (extinct)
Snow Leopard (endangered)

9. When Environments Change
natural forces
- earthquake
- forest fire
- drought
human impact
- cut down trees
- oil spills

10. Reasons for Endangered Animals
killed for use in products
- furs & feathers
- meat
not to late to save a species as long as some are still alive

11. Review Questions
What is instinctive behavior? Describe an example of it.
Name two animals. Describe one behavior that helps each animal meet a basic need.
Choice a circus animal. Describe one instinctive behavior and one learned behavior.
Think about the adaptations of animals that help them to survive. What traits might help some Asian elephants to survive?