1. What do you think of when you hear adaptation?
Adaptations
What do you think of when you hear adaptation?

2. X-Men?

3. Charles Darwin Who: naturalist
What: traveled around the world observing and documenting the natural world
Wrote the book: The Origin of Species
Where: Studied all around the world, Many of his key discoveries were on the Galapagos Islands, Wrote his book in England

5. Darwin’s Finches

6. Natural selection
The process in nature that helps the best traits survive and get passed on.
This can be seen not just in the natural world
If you do not work hard in school you don’t pass the class.
This is a very slow process

7. Know the following for future assessments and life
Overproduction
Variations
Competition
Selection
Environmental change – a change in the environment can force certain traits to passed on.

8. Adapation Definition
Characteristics that give an organism a better chance of survival.
Special traits that help living organisms survive in a particular environment.
Species: a living organisms of similar traits that can breed.

9. Reasons for adaptations
To suit their habitat
For protection
For attack
For feeding
For movement
***Fittest Survive

10. Types of adaptations Structural – external characteristics
size and shape
Feet, eyes, bills, skin
Behavioral - differing ways of reacting to the environment
Nocturnal
Arboreal
Burrowing

11. Types of adaptations Physiological - internal characteristics
Hibernation
Rumination
Endothermic

12. Examples Sharp teeth and claws for carnivores
Flat teeth for grinding and chewing
Moving in large groups is a behavioral adaptation; it helps protect the members of the group from predators.
The thick fur coat of an arctic fox is a structural adaptation. It helps protect it against the cold weather.

13. Examples
Camouflage
Mimicry

14. Habitat: Dry inland Australia, including deserts and grasslands
Adaptations: It is able to go with out drinking as long as green grass is available and it adapts well to drought.
They can hop as fast as 40 mph (64 km).  They use this as their first line of defense.  Kangaroos have a tendon in the leg which acts like a rubber band, conserving energy as the animal moves.
The tail serves as a balance when the animal leaps and as a prop when it stands.