Animals must adapt through structures or behaviors to survive in their ecosystems. Adaptations include camouflage, mimicry, hibernation, migration, and physical traits. Camouflage allows animals to blend in with their surroundings to hide from predators while hunting or to avoid being prey. Common camouflage adaptations include coloration in polar bears, pattern blending in snakes and owls, and color changing in chameleons.

2. In order for animals to survive in their
ecosystem they have to adapt.

3. Adaptation
Structure or behavior that helps a living thing “animal”
to survive in its environment

4. Adaptation
Structure
(In their Body)
Behavior
(something they do)
• Camouflage
• Mimicry
• Bad smell
• Body parts: long neck
long ears
sharp teeth
• Hibernate
• Migrate
• Nocturnal
• Walking on fins

5. Nocturnal
Behavior
These animals are active at night, they sleep all day when the desert is cooler
and wake up at night.

6. Hibernation
BehaviorDormouse Bears
These animals go into deep sleep all winter as it’s hard to find food,
& wake up in spring when plants begin to grow .

7. Migration
Behavior
These animals move to warmer places to find more food.

8. Structure

9. Structure

10. Structure

11. StructureBehavior

12. Structure
Structure
Structure

13. Adaptations in the “Desert”

14. - Cactus & Mesquite trees are desert plants.
• Have roots that spread far to absorb rainwater.
• Have stems that store water.
• Have spines to protect plants from being eaten.
Adaptation of plants

15. - Some animals are nocturnal they are active only at
night “they sleep during the day”
Adaptation of animals
Bats snakes

16. Other desert animals adapt to the desert by having
long ears to cool themselves in the hot weather.
Jack rabbits

17. Camouflage

18. Camouflage
To hide from preys
when hunting.
To hide from
predators

19. Chameleons
• They blend in their environment by
Camouflage to hide from their predators.
(They color themselves with the same color of
their environment)
Examples

20. Polar bears
• Polar bear’s white fur helps it to blend
with the ice & snow to make it easy for
them to hunt the seal without being seen.

21. Snakes
• Snakes also adapt in their environment
by camouflage
• they hide from eagles by blending in the
rocks & sand, and also to make easier for
them to hunt their preys.

22. Owls
• Owls also can adapt by camouflage
inside the trees.
• It make it easier for them to hunt their
preys without being seen.

23. Lions
• Lions also blend in their
environment.
• using camouflage to hunt their
preys without being seen.

24. Let’s play a game
•Say Camouflage !! when you spot the hiding
animal !

44. Online games
• https://ecokids.ca/swf-files/gamesPage/adaptations.swf
• https://www.nps.gov/anch/upload/ourWildNeighbors.swf
• http://www.planet-science.com/flash/1831/deploy/missionAdaptationNew.swf