Year 5: Animal Adaptations

What is an Adaptation?

An adaptation is special characteristics that help animals survive and live in a certain type of environment.  These special characteristics can be physical - what they look like.  It can also be behavioral - how they act around other animals or in their environment.                     Polar Bear Camouflage - the polar bear's white fur helps him/her hide

• Adaptations - Animals and Plants

Desert Knowledge for Kids and Students

Desert Plants and Animals

Desert Animals

• Biomes: Desert

• Desert

• Build a Meerkat: What adaptations help the meerkat survive in the dangerous desert?

  from National Geographic Kids

• National Geographic: Adaptation

Adapt - Adjusts to a certain condition to be able to survive in that environment

Survive - To remain alive

Environment - Everything that surrounds and affects a living thing, the environment includes non-living things like water and air, as well as other living things.

Habitat - The place where an animal or plant normally lives and grows 

Shelter - Something that protects from weather or danger

Living -  Being alive; having life

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  Animal Adaptations

  Scholastic Study Jams video on animal adaptations with a quiz

• Animal Adaptations

• Scholastic Study Jams

• Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum games and interactives

• Sqworl Animal Adaptations

• Planet Science: Mission Adaptation

• Britannica School

  Britannica School features articles, images, videos, audio clips, primary sources, maps, recommended websites. It is the go-to site for student research.

• National Geographic Kids: Octopus

• The Encyclopedia of New Zealand: Octopus

• National Geographic: Giant Pacific Octopus

• Aquarium of the Pacific: Greater Blue-ringed Octopus