This document discusses how living things adapt to survive in their environments. It provides examples of physical, behavioral, life cycle, and population adaptations in animals and plants. These adaptations include a shark's teeth for catching prey, a pangolin's scales for protection, a moth's eyespots to deter predators, a lemur's strategy of raising young one at a time for survival, and variations in a finch's beak size enabling it to access different food sources on the Galapagos Islands. The document emphasizes that adaptations help organisms survive and reproduce in their habitats.

1. Chapter 1: How do Living Things Survive and
Change?

2. Lesson 2, p. 10 - 15
PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS
OF LIVING THINGS

3. Animal Adaptations
• How is the body of the
shark different from other
fish?
• How did the shark get
those nice, pointy teeth?
• How do these adaptations
help the shark survive in
its environment?
Adaptations are
characteristics that help
organisms survive or
reproduce.

4. Animal Adaptations
• What are some of the
physical
characteristics of this
Pangolin?
• How did the Pangolin
get these
characteristics?
• How do you think
these adaptations
help the Pangolin
survive in its
environment?

5. Animal Adaptations
Shark Pangolin

6. • What do all these
photos have in
common?
• Which feet are
most like human
hands? How are
they alike?
• Why are Gecko’s
feet ideal for
climbing trees?
• Why are
reindeer’s feet
useful in its
environment?

8. Give it a Try
These Galapagos Finches
have different physical
adaptations, each species
has a different beak.
Click on the link below to
explore how these physical
adaptations will help each
finch survive in their specific
environment:
Finch Game

9. Animal Senses
• How do senses
help these
animals survive?

10. Give it a Try
Let’s test out our knowledge of physical
adaptations and animal senses to build a
monster and see if it survives in its
environment.
Click on the link below to get started.
Monster Game

11. Plant Adaptations
• What do pitcher
plants do that
makes them
unusual?
• How does trapping
insects help pitcher
plants survive?
• What kind of plant
part makes up the
pitcher?

13. Review
Watch the video segment: Cave
Specialists
As you watch think about:
• What types of physical adaptations you
observe.
• How each adaptation helps an animal
survive in its environment.

14. State part of the question in your answer.
Locate the evidence for your answer in the text.
Add your own information by summarizing the text.
Make a meaningful connection

15. Lesson 3, p. 16 - 23
BEHAVIORS HELP
ANIMALS SURVIVE

16. Instinct and Learned Behaviors
• What are some
examples of this
animal’s behaviors?
Behavior is any
way than an animal
interacts with its
environment.

17. Behavior
Instinct Learned
• A behavior that an animal • Learned behaviors are
can do without ever changes in an animal’s
learning how to do it. behavior that come about
• Instincts are always through experience.
performed the same way.

18. Behavior
• How does the dragonfly know • How is the behavior of
how to hunt other insects? these leopards like that of
• Why do insects behave mostly the dragonfly?
according to instinct, instead of
learning new behaviors?
• Why is the leopard cub
staying close to its mother?

19. Types of Behaviors that Help Animals to Survive
BEHAVIORS

20. Protection
When it is
threatened, this moth
spreads its wings to
display “eyespots” on its
wings.
• Why might other animals
think that the moth looks
dangerous?
• How does this help the
moth survive?
• What are other examples
of how animals behave to
protect themselves?

21. Raising Young
A female insect, fish, or
frog might lay
hundreds, even
thousands of eggs at
once. But a mother
lemur usually has only
one young at a time.
How does having only
one young at a time help
lemurs survive?

22. Shelter
• Why do
animals
need
shelter?
• Why can’t
these
animals
trade
shelters

23. Communication
Communication is
any behavior that lets
animals share
information.
• What are some ways
that animals
communicate?
• Is all communication
made using sound?

24. Review
Watch video: Underwater
Astonishments
As you watch, be thinking of:
• Examples of physical adaptations
• Examples of behavioral adaptations
• Which behaviors are learned & which
are instinct
• Examples of communication

25. State part of the question in your answer.
Locate the evidence for your answer in the text.
Add your own information by summarizing the
text.
Make a meaningful connection

26. Lesson #4
LIFE CYCLE ADAPTATIONS

27. Life
Cycle
The pattern of
growth and
development of
a kind of
organism.

28. Life Cycle Adaptations
Living things also have life cycles that are adapted to help them survive.
For example, deer do not typically give birth in the fall or winter, because a
young deer would have difficulty surviving. Instead, deer have their young
in the spring – that way young deer have time to develop and grow before
weather conditions make survival more difficult.
Let’s look at some other examples by watching this video clip:
Planet Earth: Deserts (Impact of Water on the Desert Ecosystem)
Be looking for:
• Examples of how plant life cycles are adapted
to
their environments
• Examples of how animal life cycles are adapted
to

29. Plant Life Cycles
• What causes desert
plants to grow and
bloom?
• Why do these
wildflowers live only a
brief time?
• What life cycle
Wildflowers
adaptations allow the
Death Valley, USA wildflower to survive in
this environment?

30. Animal Life Cycles
• What life cycle
adaptations do
locusts have that
help them survive in
a desert
environment?
African Locust
Sahara Desert, Egypt
• What would
happen if locusts did
not have this
adaptation?

31. Lesson #5
WHEN ENVIRONMENTS
CHANGE

32. Variation
Even of among animals of the same
species, like a group of butterflies, there are
often small differences, or variations.

33. Differences Among Individuals
Here is an example of variation, or
differences between individuals, of a
species of Peppered Moth:
• How are they alike?
• How are they different?

34. Differences Among Individuals
Peppered moths
originally lived in an
environment where the
white variation was able
to blend in to the
environment better than
the dark variation. So
there were a lot of white
variations, and very few
dark variations.
• Why did the
variations that
could not blend
in not do very
well?

35. Differences Among Individuals
During the Industrial
Revolution, however, pollution coated the
trees with black coal-dust. How do you think
this changed which variation of moth would
survive?
Let’s test out that hypothesis!
Peppered Moths
Natural Selection in Black and White

36. Changes in Populations
Next, let’s revisit our
Galapagos Finches
and examine how
variations in beak size
can have an affect on
a population:
Natural Selection

37. Changes in Populations
• Why was beak
size and shape
important to the
finches?
• On the Galapagos
Islands, why did
birds with larger,
thicker beaks
become more
common?

38. State part of the question in your answer.
Locate the evidence for your answer in the text.
Add your own information by summarizing the text.
Make a meaningful connection