Animal Adaptation Webquest
• Rules: If you need to click on a link, make sure you
are “viewing” the powerpoint.
• If you click on a link and it doesn’t show up, hit esc
and then look on the bottom of your screen to see a
window flashing.
• Take turns.
• Everyone should be writing and answering the
questions at the same time. (Do not have a scribe
and then copy later…that won’t help your grade)
• Answer all question in your notebook
• Before you have a question, make sure you read
through this again.
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Warm-up
• Visit the website at the bottom of the slide. See how
fast you can identify the correct adaptations for the
animals. In your warm-up box write your favorite
plant or animal.
http://www.ecokids.ca/pub/eco_info/topics/climate/adaptations/index.cfm
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Vocabulary (a reminder)
(just read it over)
Natural Selection – A process by which characteristics that make an
individual better suited to its environment become more common in a
species.
Behavior (animal): A response to external and internal stimuli.
Competition - the struggle between organisms to survive as they attempt to use
the same limited resource.
Predation- an interaction in which one organism kills another for food.
Symbiosis – a close relationship between two species that benefits at least
one of the species.
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Adapting to the environment
• Go to the following website:
http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/ear
thsysflr/adapt.html
• Summarize each of the following sections:
– Adaptation
– Environments
– Environments change
– Physical adaptation
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How do different kinds of adaptations
allow organisms to survive in their
environment?
• Include in your answer:
– Examples of variations in structures, behaviors,
and composition.
– Why organisms in similar environments may
have similar adaptations.
– Why organisms in similar environments may
have different adaptations.
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Conclusion
• 1. What types of evidence for evolution do
we have?
• 2. Why do species have a tendency to
change over time?
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Change Over Time WEBQUEST
• *THIS slide pertains to your webquest and
handout distributed in class today (3/5/13).
This webquest is due on THURSDAY.
• Use the following website:
http://www.biologycorner.com/worksheets/pe
pperedmoth.html to explore how
environmental factors will affect the genotype
of peppered moths over time.
• Answer questions 1-5 in the last section,
“Data and Analysis.”
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