Do-Now
Animal Adaptation
Miss Scillieri
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Take out Science Fair
Checkpoint 1: Entry Form and
Partner Contract.
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Answer the following question
as I call you up.
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Using page 19 as a source
explain one predator
adaptation and one prey
adaptation. If possible site
from documentary.
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If you do not have it
tomorrow, you will stay in for
lunch and will call your parents
explaining why it dropped 20
points no exceptions
February 18, 2014- Daily Agenda
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Check Science Fair Checkpoint
Discuss Do-Now
Finish Documentary
Discuss Documentary and
power point.
Do-Now
• Take out Science Fair
• As I check science fair answer the following
question
• Humans interact with their environment on a
daily basis. They can have positive and
negative effects. Using four vocabulary
words from the chapter write a paragraph
describe how human interaction affects the
environment.
• * Underline vocabulary words
Response
• Humans destroy habitats in a number of
different ways. One way is clearing land to
build. Pollution may leak into the ecosystem.
Oil and gasoline are abiotic factors that can
damage the biotic environment like plants
and animals. Organisms may have to
emigrate to new habitats to survive. One
such destroyer was the BP gasoline oil spill
where hundreds of marine animals lost more
than their homes.
Do-Now
Directions:
Assignment
• Take out Science Fair
As I check science fair take out
notebook paper and pen.
Everything else off desk. Read
over the writing prompt and
outline your ideas.
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The Venus flytrap is a booby trap.
If the fly touches the two triggers
the trap closes and captures the
fly. Think of ways you can create a
booby trap to capture food. Write
and essay explaining your booby
traps works, giving instructions,
and why you need it.
Writing prompt: Today you will
practice for the NJ ASK
This will count as a lab grade. I
am looking for effort not
excellence.
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What your essay needs
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You have an half an hour to
write a 2-3 paragraph essay
answering the following
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-Intro Paragraph
Body explaining how your booby
traps work and why it is important
Closing relating it to your life or
something else you have learned
Do-Now
Lab Set Up
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Set up for lab
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1’s get 4 lab reports on chair
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2’s get 4 pieces of string and
two pairs of scissors on
radiator
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3’s Get 2 stopwatches and 2
pieces of paper- on table 7.
Cut the paper in half
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4’s fill in as sub and manage
table make sure everyone has a
pen, report, group has all
supplies, all other materials on
floor and that everyone is
behaving.
What to do once set up
As I am checking
science fair read
over lab directions!
Discuss with
group. Answer the
question and write
your hypothesis
Once you finish lab…
After lab answer the following question
Answer on back page
Humans interact with their environment
on a daily basis. They can have positive and
negative effects. Using four vocabulary
words from the chapter write a paragraph
describe how human interaction affects
the environment.
Response
• Natural selection is the process of positive
adaptations being passed down from generation to
generation. For example giraffes with long necks.
We see this a lot in the animal kingdom, for example
a mouse has brown fur as camouflage. Its predator
an eagle has talons to grab the unsuspecting
critter. As you can see adaptations are in full
affect.
Academic Vocabulary
Camouflage
An adaptation in which an animal protects itself against
predators by blending in with the environment.
Protective Coloration
A type of camouflage in which the color of an animal blends in
with its background, protecting the animal against
predators.
Protective Resemblance
A type of camouflage which the color and shape of an animal
blends in with its background, protecting it against
predators.
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Academic Vocabulary
Mimicry
An adaptation in which an animal is protected against
predators by its resemblance to another, unpleasant
animal.
Adaptation
A characteristic that helps an organism to survive in its
environment.
February 10th, 2015
Learning Target: To discuss adaptations
• Come in quietly
• Sit in assigned seat
• Take out
vocabulary HW to
be checked
• Write tonight's HW
into agenda
• Complete Do-Now
• Do-Now: Complete the T-Chart
listing at least 3 adaptations a
predator uses to survive and 3
adaptions prey use to survive.
Use your schema and vocabulary
to guide you
• Predators
Prey
What is an adaptation?
Adaptation
A characteristic that helps an organism to survive in
its environment.
Physical Adaptations
Physical feature that helps and organism survive
Body part that gives an advantage
Physical Adaptations
Whale and dolphins can hold their breath for long periods
of time. Other aquatic animals breathe using gills.
Physical Adaptations
Reptiles have dry, scaly, waterproof skin. This helps them
survive on land and in dry environments.
Physical Adaptations
THINK OF
OTHER BIRDS
WHAT
ADAPATIONS
DO THEY HAVE
Birds have hollow, light weight bones to help them fly. Birds
that do not fly have other traits to help them adapt.
Physical Adaptations
Some mammals have thick hair to keep them warm.
Physical Adaptations
Kangaroos have pouches to carry their young in. When
marsupials have babies the offspring is not fully developed
and they carry the baby in the pouch until it fully develops.
Physical Adaptations
The duck billed platypus and the spiny anteater produce
milk to feed their young.
Behavioral Adaptations
Things that organisms DO (voluntary)
A Way an Organism purposely acts to survive
Behavioral Adaptations
Wolves travel in packs to allow them to hunt large prey they
may not be able to kill along.
Behavioral Adaptations
Fish swim in school to protect them from predators.
Behavioral Adaptations
Aardvarks stay in burrows during the day and only come
out at night to hunt for food to avoid the heat.
(nocturnal)
Behavioral Adaptations
Reptiles must “sun” to maintain their body temperature
since they are cold blooded.
Physical Adaptations
Male peacocks have tall feathers to display to attract a
mate.
Physical Adaptations
Crickets chip by rubbing their wings together to attract
mates.
Physical Adaptations
Female alligators carry their young to the water to care for
them for several weeks.
Instincts
An instinct is an inherited behavior that is not learned but
done automatically.
A newborn puppy can find its way to their mother. They are
not taught to do this; it is instinct for them (automatic).
What are adaptations to climate?
Adaptations differ depending on the environment. Animals that live in
frozen areas near the earth’s poles do not have the same adaptations of
animals who live in deserts.
Animals in colder climates must be able to reduce heat loss.
Animals in deserts and hot climates must be able to get rid of excess
heat.
Camels have humps made of fat to store food and water when they are
scarce.
Fennec’s, a kind of fox, have big ears to allow the heat to escape.
Animals that live in cold have insulation that traps heat like blubber for
whales and fur in feathers for birds
What are adaptations to climate?
Behavioral adaptations also help some animals survive
extreme weather.
Penguins huddle together for protection for the extreme
cold.
What are adaptations to climate?
Behavioral adaptations also help some animals survive
season changes.
Some animals such as bats, snakes, turtles, and frogs
hibernate in periods of inactivity during the cold. During
hibernation, animals live on previously stored energy.
Many animals such as birds, butterflies, and fish migrate.
Organisms migrate for season change, food availability, and
loss of habitat.
What adaptations do predators and prey have?
Predators
Some snakes and lizard
have poisons in their jaws
The hognose snake will
play dead to attack
• PREY
• Some animals use
chemicals when
threatened like a
skunk.
• Gazelles run fast away
from predators
• Bugs right into a tight
ball to avoid prey.
What adaptations do predators and prey have?
How Predators Catch Prey?
Some adaptations help predators catch more prey.
Anteaters have long tongues that are covered with tiny
spikes and sticky saliva to pick up ants.
Woodpecker finches use a twig or cactus spine to remove insects from
deep within trees.
Camouflage
Some animals survive by blending in.
Camouflage
An adaptation in which an animal protects itself against
predators by blending in with the environment.
Camouflage predators can sneak up on prey and prey with
camouflage can hide from predators.
Protective Coloration
Protective Coloration
A type of camouflage in which the color of an animal blends in
with its background, protecting the animal against predators.
In the winter, the arctic fox has a white coat to blend in
with the snow. In the spring time, they fox’s coat changes
colors to blend in with the plants that grow in warm
weather.
Protective Resemblance
A type of camouflage which the color AND shape of an animal
blends in with its background, protecting it against predators.
The walking stick insect resembles a stick or small branch.
Mimicry
An adaptation in which an animal is protected against
predators by its resemblance to another, unpleasant animal.
Coral Snake and King Snake
Robber Fly and Bumblebee
The viceroy butterfly is protected from predators because
it looks like the bad-tasting, poisonous monarch butterfly.
Review
Physical and behavioral adaptations
help animals survive in environments.
Adaptations to climate can help
animals survive extreme
temperatures.
Adaptations that allow organisms to
avoid predation include camouflage
and mimicry.
Exit Slip
As the movie plays pick an adaption from
today’s class or the brain pop and write a
“juicy, spicy, Thanksgiving dinner “description.
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