Organisms exhibit traits that help them survive in their environments through adaptations like camouflage, mimicry, nocturnal behavior, hibernation, and migration. Camouflage allows animals to blend into their surroundings and hide from predators while hunting prey. Mimicry enables some animals to disguise their appearance and resemble other organisms or objects like stones. Nocturnal habits, hibernation, and migration are also adaptive behaviors that help animals find food or escape harsh environments. Plants in deserts and wetlands similarly display adaptations like deep root systems and water storage to cope with their ecological conditions.

1. How do an organism’s
trait help it survive?

2. - Every animal has its own environment where
it lives in.
Example
Polar bears live in the Arctic. Snakes live in the desert.
In order to survive in their environment, they have to behave in
a special way.

3. Adaptation
It’s the behavior that helps
a living thing “animal” to
survive in its environment

4. Adaptation
Camouflage
Mimicry
Nocturnal
Hibernate
Migrate

5. “Animals hide by blending in their environment”
Camouflage
-Many animals adapt to live in their environment by
“camouflage”.
-They hide & protect themselves from being eaten by other
animals by blending in their environment .
-Other animals use camouflage to help them not to be
noticed so that they can hunt their preys easily.

6. “Chameleons”
- They blend in their
environment by
Camouflage to hide
from their predators.
(They color themselves
with the same color of
their environment)
Examples

7. “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.

8. “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.

9. “Owls”
-Owls also can adapt by
camouflage inside the trees
-It make it easier for them to
hunt their preys without
being seen.

10. “Lions”
- Lions also blend in their
environment
using camouflage to hunt
their preys without being
seen.

11. - Desert is a very tough environment to live in.
- So plants & animals living in the desert should adapt to survive in it.
Adaptation in the desert

12. - 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 by
animals.
Adaptation of plants

13. - Some animals are nocturnal they are active only
at night “they sleep during the day”
Bats & Snakes
Adaptation of animals
Examples

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

15. -Some animals imitate another in color or shape,
like : stone fish.
“It looks exactly like the stones of the Ocean, so it’s
very hard to notice it & that helps it to survive
in its ecosystem”
Adaptation Of animals in the ocean
This is called: Mimicry

16. - Other animals go to a very deep sleep during the
winter, when they couldn’t find their food,
Like: Dormouse & Bears.
This is called: Hibernation

17. - Other animals like: Skunks spray a stinky smell when a predator
comes close to them.

18. - Some animals move from their ecosystem to another ecosystem in
the winter “ When the weather gets very cold”
- Example:
Whales
Adaptation Of animals in the Ocean
This is called: Migration

19. - Other Ocean animals have different ways of adaptation like: Angler
fish
“Has a growth above its head that lights up”

20. Adaptation in Wetlands
Adaptation Of Plants in the wetland
Mangrove trees
have roots that
spread out to
attach well in the
muddy soil.

21. Adaptation Of animals in the Wetland
Walking catfish can
use its fins to move
from a dry land to a
body of water.