adaptations for grade 2

1. Adaptation
What do animals need to
stay safe?

2. What is ADAPTATION?
 Adaptation is a body part or a way to act
to stay alive.
Body parts like the
hump of a camel
A way to act like
sleeping all winter
(Hibernation)

3. Seasonal changes
 In Fall the weather
starts to get cool
 In fall animals adapt to get ready for the
cold winter

4. Hibernate
 Spend winter in deep sleep
 Animals eat and eat in spring and summer

5. Migrate
 Move and live in another place
 Birds fly South in fall to a warmer place
 Cranes

6. Migrate
Other animals that migrate
 Fish
 Deer
 Elephants

7. Adaptations of body parts
 The long neck of the giraffe
to reach the green leaves of long trees.
 The big eyes of the tarsier
to see in the dark.

8. Adaptations of body parts
 The long snout of the
anteater to reach ants
under the ground.
 The big claws of the bear
to protect itself and hunt fish.

9. Camouflage
 Camouflage is a body color that helps the
animal hide in its habitat.
- Chameleon can take the color
of any thing to hide from danger.
- Polar bear has white fur
to hide in the snow.

10. Camouflage
 Camouflage is a body color that helps the
animal hide in its habitat.
- Ptarmigan bird has white feather in winter to
hide in the snow and brown in summer.