This document discusses different types of adaptations that help organisms survive in their environments. It focuses on adaptations in animals and plants. There are two main types of adaptations - structural adaptations, which involve physical characteristics like coloration, size or shape of body parts; and behavioral adaptations, which refer to how organisms act and behave. Examples of structural adaptations in animals include camouflage, mimicry and body structures. Behavioral adaptations in animals include migration, hibernation and hunting in packs. Structural adaptations in plants involve physical structures that store water or catch minerals. Seeds also have adaptations to help them survive and grow. All living things adapt in some way to help them thrive in their environment.

2. PREPARED BY

3. Inherited Characteristics
Why do tigers have stripes?
Why are bullfrogs green on the back and
white on the belly?
Why do giraffes have such a long neck?
Why do geese fly south for the winter?
Why do waterlilies float?
Why do some plants bear fruit?
All of these questions deal with
adaptations!!!

4. What are adaptations?
Adaptations – an inherited characteristic that
helps an organism to survive long enough to
reproduce more successfully in its changing
environment and can either be structural or
behavioral.

5. ANIMAL ADAPTATIONS

6. Types of Adaptation
 Anything that helps an organism survive in
its environment is an adaptation.
 It also refers to the ability of living things to
adjust to different conditions within their
environments.
Structural adaptation
 Protective coloration
 Mimicry
Behaviour adaptations
 Migration
 Hibernation

7. Structural adaptations
A structural adaptation involves some part of an
animal's body. Actual body parts or coloration that
help an organism survive in their environment.
EX: camouflage, mimicry, bent hind legs, sharp teeth and
claws, body structures.

8. Protective Resemblance
Coloration Mimicry
A structural adaptation involves some part of an animal's body, such as the size
or shape of the teeth, the animal's body covering, or the way the animal moves.

9. Behavioral Adaptations
 Ways an organism act to help them survive in their
environment. Behaviour adaptations include
activities that help an animal survive. Behaviour
adaptations can be learned or instinctive. It includes
 Social behaviour
 Behaviour for protection
EX: Migration, hibernation, warning calls, mating
dances, hunting in packs.

10. Migration
Hibernation
Playing Dead

11. PLANT ADAPTATIONS

12. Structural Plant Adaptations
1. Structures - adaptations on the body:
holdfasts, empty space for water storage, catch
animals for minerals, tallness, heartiness, thorns,
flexibility, floatation devices
2. Seeds – all seeds have adaptation to
better enable it to survive long enough
to plant itself and grow.

13. Plant Adaptations
Protection – thorns, bad taste, poison,
coloration, spikes
Obtaining Food – All plants do
photosynthesis and make glucose in their
leaves. The larger the leaves the more
Sun they can capture.

14. Plant Adaptations

15. All living things adapt is a characteristic of
life. All 6 kingdoms adapt. Animals are not the only
organisms to adapt. Plants also adapt in various ways
to survive.