Animal Adaptations for Survival: Exploring Nature's Ingenious Strategies

2. 1. Animal adaptations are things that help animals meet their needs. • 2. Adaptations help animals to be safe from predators. • 3. To survive, animals need shelter, food, oxygen, water, and climate.

3. 4. Some adaptations that turtles need are webbed feet and nostrils on the top of their head to breath. These adaptations help the turtle survive. • 5. Camouflage is something blending into it’s surrounding. Camouflage can help an animal by protecting the animal and making it less visible to predators.

4. Hibernation • A period of time when an animal goes into a deep “sleep” • Ex. Bear • https://www.pinterest.com/pin/108367934760999050/

5. Camouflage • An animal's color or pattern that helps them to BLEND in • https://www.pinterest.com/pin/108367934760999058/

6. Shelter • A place where an animal is protected from weather or other animals

7. Adaptation • An adaptation is a body part or behavior that helps an animal meet its needs or to survive in its environment. • https://www.pinterest.com/pin/108367934760999064/

8. Mimicry • Mimicry is an adaptation in which an animal looks very much like another animal. These “look a likes” look like other animals that their predators would avoid. • https://www.pinterest.com/pin/280067670552277971/

9. Describe the beak of a bird that drinks nectar from inside a flower

10. Describe the feet of an animal that swims in water.

11. Describe the feet of an animal that catches prey in the air

12. Metamophosis • The young of many insects and amphibians change to adults by going through this process. • Give an example of an animal who goes through metamorphosis.

13. Describe an animal and its adaptations that lives in the artic. https://www.pinterest.com/pin/108367934760999064/ • Describe an animal and its adaptations that lives in the desert

14. To survive animals need • Oxygen • Shelter • Food • Water • Climate