1. If an environment changes, plants & Animals will do 1 of 3 things…
1 Become extinct
2 Move to another environment or location (migrate)
3 Traits change over time (change genetically) Individuals with variations that are favorable in the new environment will survive and reproduce.
The population with the favorable variation will increase!
ex: Gray moths on gray bark will increase.

2. Adaptations and the Environment
Tutorial: Adaptations and Survival

3. What is an Adaptation?
Adaptations are favorable variations of traits that help an organism better survive in a given environment!
Ex: shape of a beak or claw, teeth, antlers, feathers/fur (body coverings), the presence of a tail or movement
There are two types of adaptations:
1. Physical
Body Structures
2. Behavioral
Actions

4. Examples of Physical Adaptations
Structure of Teeth
Animals that eat meat, are called Carnivores.
Sharp Canine Teeth and Incisors in the top jaw indicate a Carnivore
Animals that eat plants, they are called herbivores.
Flat Molars and no incisors on the top jaw indicate an Herbivore
simplyteeth.com

5. PHYSICAL ADAPTATIONS Dense Root Structures in Plants Hollow Hair
(Allows plants to grow in compacted soil and anchors plants)
Hollow Hair
(Insulates animals from hot & cold)
Like insulation around your home!
PHYSICAL ADAPTATIONS

6. Physical Adaptation: Hollow bones
Birds have hollow bones (nothing on the inside) to help them fly.
It makes them light enough or less dense to soar through the air.

7. Desert Plants have small leaves or spines and/or wax coatings to reduce the loss of water from the plant.
PHYSICAL ADAPTATIONS

8. Arctic Animals have short ears, legs, & round bodies to reduce the surface area of their bodies. This reduces the amount of body heat loss. Keeps them warmer!!
Physical adaptations

9. Physical Adaptation: Vision
Owls can see at night
because of their large
eyes.

10. More physical adaptations
Animals with armored plates protect them from predators and harm.

11. Physical Adaptations of birds
Birds and their beaks: beaks allow them to eat.
This house finch has a short, stubby beak for eating seeds.

12. More physical adaptations
Hummingbirds long pointed beaks allow
them to reach inside the flower for nectar.

13. More Physical Adaptations
The European goldfinch eats insects with its sharp, pointed beak.

14. Physical Adaptation: Claws
Claws, or talons, help animals to catch and eat their food.
Red-Tailed Hawk
Osprey’s talons

15. Physical Adaptation: Forked tongues
They allow reptiles to smell and to tell which direction the smell is coming from.

16. Physical Adaptation: Camouflage
Where organisms are colored or shaped like their surroundings.
This adaptation helps protect organisms from their enemies. On the other hand, camouflage also helps a predator "fit in" to its environment so that it won't be seen very easily as it comes up on its prey.
Take the Arctic fox. During summer months, the Arctic fox has a brown coat. During winter, the coat of the Arctic fox is white, matching its icy, snowy surroundings.

17. More Physical Camouflage
Hawkfish changes colors to blend in with their environment.

18. Even more physical camouflage
A tiger uses its stripes to blend into grass, leaves and trees.

19. Physical Adaptations: Mimicry
An adaptation in which an organism is trying to look, act, or sound like another organism to survive (or for their own protection).
Like a Copycat!!!
Plant mimicking and insects trying to get pollinated.
Caterpillar mimicking
bird droppings.

20. Mimicry Monarch (original) Viceroy (imitator)
Monarch butterflies are toxic to predators, and you can tell from their bright colors, so the Viceroy mimics the Monarch to protect itself.
Monarch (original) Viceroy (imitator)

21. Mimicry
The King Snake tries to imitate the Poisonous Coral Snake.

22. Behavioral Adaptations: Instinct
What does it mean to act on instinct or have an instinct?
An instinct occurs naturally – without thinking (sneezing, tripping).
It does not have to be taught, it is natural.
Animals are born with instincts.

23. Behavioral Adaptation: INSTINCT
Bears or Squirrels hibernate in the winter to escape the cold.

24. Behavioral Adaptation: Instinct
Sea turtles migrate (move somewhere else during a season) – no one tells them to, it is something that naturally happens.

25. Behavioral Adaptation: Instinct
Snakes like the rattlesnake shake their rattles to warn predators to stay away.
A snake would rather hide, not attack.

26. Behavioral Adaptation: Instinct
Turtles withdraw their bodies into their shells to hide from predators.
Desert Tortoise burrow into the ground to escape the heat during the day time.

27. Behavioral Adaptation: Instinct
Chameleons change color because of their mood, or because they sense a predator nearby.

28. Acclimation
An individual changes in response to the environment over the course of its life.
NOT passed on through genes
What does it mean to learn something?
You are taught it, it is not an instinct.
You observe it being done, and then you practice it yourself

29. Acclimation: Learned
Cheetahs watch their mothers to learn how to hunt.

30. Acclimation: LEARNED
Chimpanzees learn sounds in order to communicate with each other.

31. Wrap it Up…..
Adaptations are qualities that help animals to survive in a given environment.
There are physical and behavioral adaptations.
Physical Adaptations
Camouflage helps an animal hide by changing color.
Mimicry helps an animal survive by imitating something more dangerous.
Behavioral Adaptations
Instinct is natural.
Acclimation
New behavior is learned

32. The End