This document discusses weather, climate, and climate adaptation. It defines weather as the daily atmospheric conditions including temperature, humidity, and wind speed. Climate is defined as the average weather pattern over 25 years, and animals adapt to climate conditions through physical changes or migration. Climate adaptation refers to changes in living organisms in response to climate changes, such as changes in skin color, fur composition, or behaviors like burrowing. Adaptations help animals meet their basic needs of air, water, shelter, and food through physical traits or behavioral changes. Physical adaptations include camouflage, mimicry, and body parts, while behavioral adaptations include migration and hibernation.

2. Weather
 Weather is the daily atmospheric condition of a place. It is
determined by the temperature, humidity, rainfall, wind
speed etc. Sun drives the changes in the weather.

3. Types of weather

4. Climate
 Climate is the average weather pattern of a place taken
over a period of 25 years. Animals adapt themselves to the
climatic conditions of a place. Animals may migrate to
different places to escape from cold and harsh conditions
like the polar region. Many animals and plants are found in
the tropical region due to the hospitable climate.

5. Climate Adaptation
 Climate adaptation refers to specific adaptations in a living
organism that develop in response to changes in climate
and habitat. Such adaptations could include physical
changes, such as skin or fur color and composition
changes, or the adaptations could be behavioral, such as
burrowing into the ground or spending more time in water

6. What is an adaptation?
 How a person or animal changes or “adapts” to survive.
 We change how we dress. When the weather gets cold we wear coats and
long pants. Similar to this animals must adapt to changes in their
surroundings.
 What do all animals need?
 Air (oxygen), water, shelter, food
 What animals do or how they behave to get these needs is called an
adaptation.

7. Types of Adaptations
Adaptations- Physical
 Bombardier beetle- a beetle that has
a special defense feature. It mixes two
chemicals in its body and shoots the
chemicals mixed in its body from its
abdomen at predators for protection.
 The skunk uses a special musk to spray
when it feels it is facing danger.

8. Physicaladaptation
Camouflage(use ofcolorin a surrounding)
The chameleon can change its color to match its
surroundings. Can you do that?

9. Mimicry
(looking orsounding like another living organism)
The Viceroy butterfly uses mimicry to look like the
Monarch butterfly. Can you tell them apart?
Physicaladaptation
I’m the
Monarch!
I’m the
Viceroy!

10. Body coverings & parts (claws, beaks, feet, armor plates, skulls,
teeth)
Physicaladaptations
The elephant’s trunk is a physical adaptation that
helps it to clean itself, eat, drink, and to pick things
up.

11. Behavioral Adaptations
Migration  This is when animals move from one
place to another in search of food or
to find a warmer place to live.
Hibernation/Estivation  When an animal goes in a dormant or
inactive state to avoid extremely cold
weather conditions. Brown bears
hibernate in the winter. Estivation is
the same as hibernation but is done by
animals trying to avoid very hot
conditions.

12. Each organism has uniquemethods of
adaptingto its environmentby meansof
different actions.
BehavioralAdaptations are animals’
actions.
Remember thatPhysicalAdaptationsarebody
structures.

13. Think about the way you dress in the winter.
You don’t wear your shorts and bathing suit when it’s snowing outside!
Youwearwarm clothes,andmaybe evena
hatandmittenstoprotect yourself from
theweather.

14. Made by: Mayank Duggal