1. EQ: What influence does environment have on species survival?
Adaptations
EQ: What influence does environment have on species survival?

2. If someone asked you to describe a frog…
You might say that it has long hind legs, bulging eyes and croaks.
But what color skin?
Once you start to think about frogs, you realize that frogs differ in many ways.
Why?

3. As you can see, each frog has a different characteristic that might help the frog to survive
A characteristic that helps an organism survive and reproduce in its environment is called an adaptation.
May be physical, like the long neck of a giraffe
Or behavioral to help an organism find food, protect itself or reproduce.

4. Adaptations Organisms have evolved their adaptations.
This means that a long period of slow change resulted in the adaptations.
For example, the snow leopard’s spots did not happen overnight.
It took many generations of snow leopards physically adapting to their environment for the spot patterns to evolve.

5. Animal Physical Adaptations
Physical adaptations is a structural modification made to the organism
Something the organism has.
Webbed feet, sharp claws, whiskers, sharp teeth, large beaks, wings for flying

6. Physical Adaptations in Animals
Many interactions between species consist of one organism catching and eating another one.
This relationship is called predator/prey
To survive, predators must be able to catch their prey
Prey have their own methods for avoiding capture.

7. Physical Adaptations In Animals
Predators
Prey
Speed
Camouflage to enable an ambush
Venom to paralyze prey
Speed
Camouflage to blend in with environment
Warning coloration
Venom
Mimicry

8. Physical Adaptations of Plants
Large leaves to gather sunlight
Thorns for protection
Waxy leaves to conserve water
Shed leaves in winter
Shallow/deep root systems
Showy flowers

9. Behavioral Adaptations
A behavioral adaptation is something that an organism does – how it acts --- usually in response to some type of external stimulus.

10. Behavioral Adaptations of Animals and Plants
Burrowing
Migration
Swarming
Make itself appear bigger
Nocturnal
Tropisms (grow toward light)
Wilting to conserve water

11. AP: Venn Creature Mash-Up
Choose two organisms with distinctive adaptations.
Combine them to form a new organism
Describe your organism’s adaptations:
What are your organism’s physical adaptations?
What are your organism’s behavioral adaptations?
In what type of ecosystem is it adapted to live?
How do your new organism’s adaptations allow it to survive and reproduce in its environment?