2. AIM: (2) What are adaptations?
Objectives
Define and give examples of adaptations
Define and give examples of environments

3. AIM: What are adaptations?
Vocabulary
Adaptation
Environment
Biotic and Abiotic

4. AIM: What are adaptations?
Question
What does the term environment mean?
Answer?
Everything that surrounds a living thing!

5. Environments
NON LIVING THINGS
LIVING THINGS

6. Environments other animals plants bugs insects bacteria air water
LIVING THINGS
other animals
plants
bugs
insects
bacteria
NON LIVING THINGS
air
water
sunlight
rocks
soil
Abiotic
Biotic

7. What are some living things in this environment?
Catfish, weeping willow, raccoon, fish, frog, insects

8. What are some non-living things in this environment?
Sunlight, water, lake bottom, air, mountains, dead tree

9. Living things use non-living resources to thrive and prosper
Examine this log, for all the different animals which call this home, or supper !

10. The earth worm attempts to return the nutrients back to the soil
The woodpecker gets food
The termite spends his life here !
My favorite, the snake, may live beneath it!
The moss has a home, so does the fungus
The spider builds his nest here

11. AIM: What are adaptations?
Question
What does the term adaptation mean?
Answer?
Trait of a living thing that helps it live in its environment

12. AIM: What are adaptations?
Question
What does the term trait mean?
Answer?
A characteristic of something

13. Remember:
... The ability to adapt is a fundamental property of life and determines whether an organism survives or become extinct

14. AIM: What are adaptations?
On the next 13 slides
Describe various traits of the organisms and what adaptations they have made to survive in their environment.

15. Notice the adaptations listed by each picture.
How to they help the animal get food?

16. Notice the adaptations listed by each picture.
How to they help the animal get food?

17. Notice the adaptations listed by each picture.
How to they help the animal get food?

18. How have they adapted to
their environment.?

19. How have they adapted to
their environment.?

20. How have
they adapted to
their
environment.?

21. How have they adapted to
their environment.?

24. How have they adapted to
their environment.?

26. How have they adapted to
their environment.?

28. How have they adapted to
their environment.?

29. Human Adaptations Place your pencil on your desk.
Now, pick it up with one hand. Was that difficult?
Describe how you picked it up in your NB
Now place your pencil on your desk.
Without using any part of your thumb pick it up.
Get it in the writing position.
Now, describe in your NB if this was easier or more difficult.
What other activities does having a thumb – make them more easier to accomplish?
Can you button a shirt w/o your thumb.
What would our civilization be like without this adaptation?

30. Question
We looked at how living things adapt to their environment.
But what separates MAN from other living things is our ability to adapt our environment TO us.

31. How are we adapting our
environment to us?

32. How are we adapting our
environment to fit us?

33. How are we adapting our environment?

34. envirornment to our need?
Dont we all adapt our
envirornment to our need?

35. All organisms adapt to their environment
AIM: What are Adaptations?
Review
All organisms adapt to their environment
An adaptation helps an organism survive in its environment.
People often adapt their environment to meet their needs as opposed to adapting to their environment.

36. AIM: What are adaptations?
Class Activity:
Worksheets: 2-2, Adaptation Worksheets
Project: Poster of an animal and its adaptations!

37. AIM: What are Adaptations?
Homework:
INTERNET QUESTIONS
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