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Name:______________________________________________ Date:_____________ Introduction to Adaptations: Animal/Plant Adaptation Scavenger Hunt Part I. Notes *Define Adaptation__________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ *Two main types of adaptation: 1. 2. *Examples of animal adaptations: Part II. Animal Adaptation Web Scavenger Hunt Instructions: Use an appropriate internet source of your choice to identify and describe the important features of animals, their environments, and their adaptations that are listed below. You may use multiple sources to answer the prompts if needed. Suggested websites: https://animalcorner.co.uk/ http://a-z-animals.com/animals/ http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/facts/ http://kids.nationalgeographic.com/animals/ 1. Organism:______________________________________________________________________ Habitat location/description (detail the natural environment/habitat in which the organism lives): Describe the animal’s structural adaptations (physical features): Describe the animal’s behavioral adaptations: Where/what does it eat? How does it catch/find food and water? How does it keep warm/cool? Where does it find shelter? How does it protect/defend itself from predators? 2. Organism:______________________________________________________________________ Habitat location/description (detail the natural environment/habitat in which the organism lives): Describe the animal’s structural adaptations (physical features): Describe the animal’s behavioral adaptations: Where/what does it eat? How does it catch/find food and water? How does it keep warm/cool? Where does it find shelter? How does it protect/defend itself from predators? 3. Organism:______________________________________________________________________ Habitat location/description (detail the natural environment/habitat in which the organism lives): Describe the animal’s structural adaptations (physical features): Describe the animal’s behavioral adaptations: Where/what does it eat? How does it catch/find food and water? How does it keep warm/cool? Where does it find shelter? How does it protect/defend itself from predators? 4. Organism:______________________________________________________________________ Habitat location/description (detail the natural environment/habitat in which the organism lives): Describe the animal’s structural adaptations (physical features): Describe the animal’s behavioral adaptations: Where/what does it eat? How does it catch/find food and water? How does it keep warm/cool? Where does it find shelter? How does it protect/defend itself from predators? Part III. Animal & Plant Adaptations and Behaviors Instructions: To complete the following questions, please use the website http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/adaptations to help you locate the missing information that goes in the appropriate blanks and to identify examples of animal and plant adaptations/behaviors. Adaptations help organisms survive in their ecological niche or habitat; adaptations can be anatomical, behavioral or physiological. Anatomical adaptations are physical features such as an animal’s _____________________. Behavioral adaptations can be ___________________________ or ____________________________ and include tool use, language and swarming behavior. Physiological adaptations include the ability to make venom; but also more general functions such as __________________________________ ___________________________________. Adapted to extremes Adaptation to extremes encompasses all the special behaviors and physiologies that living things need to withstand the planet's harshest ______________________________________ and environments. Whether it's a lack of oxygen at altitude, the searing heat of deserts or the bitter cold of the polar regions, plants, animals and other organisms have evolved a multitude of ________________________ strategies. 5. List one example of an animal and one example of a plant that is cold-tolerant. Cold Tolerant Plant: Cold Tolerant Animal: 6. List one example of an animal and one example of a plant that is heat-tolerant. Heat Tolerant Plant: Heat Tolerant Animal: Animal intelligence Animal intelligence covers behavior that's considered above the norm for an animal. Some species may be unusually adept at learning new skills or using tools. Others have highly developed social and even emotional skills and may even have developed a distinct __________________________, in a similar way to human beings. 7. List the four types of animal intelligence: a. Example: Culture b. c. d. Behavioral pattern Behavioral pattern describes an animal's _________________________________ way of life. Arboreal animals, for example, live in trees and nocturnal animals are active at night. 8. Choose one of the 10 types of behavioral patterns listed for animals. Click on the behavioral pattern of your choice and read about it. Provide a one-sentence summary that describes the behavior pattern and provide at least two examples of animals who demonstrate that behavior pattern. Identification and Description of behavior pattern: __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Examples of animals that exhibit this behavior pattern: __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Communication and senses Communication and senses are how an organism ______________________________ the world - for instance through scent or sight - and how it sends messages or warnings to others. 9. There are eight ways in which animals communicate and/or sense listed on the website. Please click on the link that is titled “chemical communication.” Read about chemical communication and then provide a one sentence summary describing chemical communication and provide an example of animals who demonstrate this ability. Brief summary of chemical communication: __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Examples of animals that exhibit demonstrate the ability to communicate chemically: __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Ecosystem role Ecosystem roles are about the part an animal or plant plays in sustaining or ____________________________________ the habitat around them. Bees, for example, pollinate flowers, without which those plants would not produce fruits or seeds. Other species, such as dung beetles, play a vital role in keeping grasslands clear of animal waste and ______________________________________ valuable resources. 10. Identify the three primary ecosystem roles that animals take on and briefly describe each role: a. b. c. Feeding habits Feeding habits describe the dominant __________________ of a particular species or group of species, and how they go about obtaining it. 11. Provide at least two examples of organisms that fit into each category according to their feeding habits: a. Blood sucker: b. Herbivore: c. Carnivore: d. Scavenger: Life Cycle Life cycle describes all the different ______________________________ through which an animal, plant or other organism passes from conception, through adulthood to death. Encompassed here are not only the major physiological stages of growth and development, but also temporary occurrences such as mounting and experiential phases such as _________________________________ and _______________________________________. 12. Identify the primary stages of the life cycle for most organisms: a. Courtship display b. c. d. e. f. Locomotion Locomotion is how an animal gets ________________________ - for instance by swimming, flying or climbing. 13. List the six types of locomotion in which organisms can be adapted to: a. Climbing b. c. d. e. f. Morphology Morphology is anything to do with what a plant or animal ___________________ like - its size, shape, colour or structure. 14. Click on the first link under Morphology that is titled “Camouflage”. Read about how animals camouflage and provide one example of an organism that has the ability to camouflage as an adaptation in its environment. Why would an Arctic Fox using camouflage in its natural habitat be considered an adaptation? Why would it NOT be considered an adaptation if the Arctic Fox lived in the desert? Explain. __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Predation strategy Predation is ___________________________ and ____________________________ an animal in order to eat it and different species have evolved a range of strategies for doing this efficiently. The most frequently used methods are variations on chasing and capturing if the predator is a fast runner, ambushing to conserve energy, or using a trapping mechanism such as a spider's web. 15. Choose one of the five predation strategies and click on the link. Briefly explain the predation strategy of your choice and provide an example of an organism that uses this predation strategy. ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Reproductive strategy Reproduction covers all the tactics and behaviors involved in obtaining a ________________________, conceiving the next generation and successfully raising them. It includes everything from plants being pollinated, to stags fighting over hinds, to lionesses babysitting their sisters' cubs. 16. Click on the second picture/link that says “Asexual Reproduction” under the “Reproductive Strategy” section. Define asexual reproduction and provide three examples of organisms who reproduce asexually. Define asexual reproduction: __________________________________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Examples of asexual organisms: __________________________________________________________________________________________________ Social behavior Social behavior is all about how an animal __________________________________ with members of its own species. For instance, does it live in a colony or on its own, does it fight to be top of the pecking order, or does it try to keep strangers away from its home? 17. Provide a definition or brief summary of each type of social behavior among organisms. a. Colonial______________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ b. Eusocial______________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ c. Hierarchical___________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ d. Social________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ e. Territorial_____________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________________ Survival strategy Survival strategies enable organisms to ______________________ with particular stresses, from temporary environmental changes in the weather to the constant threat of predation. So, for instance, to avoid the cold of winter animals may _______________________ away or ___________________________, while trees may shed their leaves. To avoid predation, plants may be _______________________________________ or covered with defensive spikes and animals may use camouflage or travel in great numbers. 18. Generate a list of the eight types of survival strategies and provide an example of an animal or plant that utilizes each particular survival strategy to their advantage. Survival Strategies: 1. Aestivation 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. Organism(s) that demonstrates the survival strategy: Long-eared hedgehog