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Unit # 3 Plants & Animals

Lesson 4 What Are Structural Adaptations?

Topic 3 : Creature Costumes

Objective: Describe the meaning of animal adaptations.

Summary

Some animals can hide without trying; these animals are hidden by their shapes, colors,

or pattern.

Such disguises are called camouflage.

A snow leopard’s spot help it blend in to the background of snow and rock.

Some harmless animals look like animals that are harmful to predators, since predators

don’t know which animal is harmful, neither gets eaten.

Imitating the look of other animals is called mimicry.

Monarch butterflies make birds sick, viceroy butterflies mimic them to prevent getting

eaten.

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Key wordspattern camouflage mimicry

orchid mantis snow leopard’s

Write each vocabulary twice.

pattern

camouflage

mimicry

orchid mantis

snow leopard’s

Write whether each statement is "true" or "false".

1. Some animals can hide without trying true

2. The frogfish can look like a rock or sponge true.

3. The viceroy dosen’t look like monarch False.

4. Some animals are hidden by their shapes, colors, or patterns True.

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Direction: Label the pictures by using words below:

viceroy snow leopard orchid mantis orchid mantis

viceroy orchid mantis snow leopard orchid man tis

Fill in the blanks with the word or phrase that best completes each sentences:

predator patterns hide camouflage mimicry

1. Some animals can hide without trying.

2. Imitating the look of other animals is called mimicry.

3. The color of soil and ground help deer and squirrels hide from predator.

4. The patterns of body color protect animals in the environment.

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5. A camouflage help animals stay hidden in the environment.

Answer the following questions:

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Anything helps the animal to hide from the predators.

Any animal looks like another one.


Lesson 4 What Are Structural Adaptations?

Topic 4 : Plant Facts

Objective: Describe the meaning of animal adaptations.

Summary

Plants need water, there isn’t much water in a desert, and so desert plants are

adapted to hold moisture.

Desert plants such as cactuses have thick stems that store water.

The leaves of many desert plants have a waxy coating that helps prevent water

loss.

Most desert plants have spines that help prevent water vapor from escaping from

the plant.

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If I am An animal lives in the desert, I will change my fur’s color to brown to hide between the sands.

Key wordscactuses desert Spines

waxy nutrients


1. There is much water in a desert. False.

2.Most desert plants have spines, not leaves True

3. Pitcher plants can get the nutrients they need from soil False.

4. Leaves of desert plants haven't a waxy coating False.

5. The spines keep animals from eating the plants True.

Answer the following questions: 1. What plants grow in the desert?

Cactus

2. What do plants need to live?

Water, sunlight, nutrients and Oxygen

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Lesson 6 What Are Behavioral Adaptations?

Topic 1 : Know It Or Learn It?

Objective: Describe the animals behavior in the environment.

Summary

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• A behavior is anything an organism does.• Learned behaviors are behaviors that come from watching other

animals or through experience.• Young animals learn how to behave by watching and copying

adults.

• An instinct is a behavior that an animal knows without learning it.• Animals are born with instincts.• Behaviors are adaptations that may help an animal survive its

environment.• A mother lion teachers her cubs to hunt.• Searching for food is an instinct.• Knowing how to find and catch food is something cubs learn by copying

their parents.

• A mother sea turtle buries her eggs in the sand. When the baby turtles hatch at night, they move toward the bright ocean. Both behaviors are instincts.

• Other instincts include spiders spinning their webs and moths using moonlight to find their way.

• For some birds, singing is an instinct. Some birds learn their songs from other birds.

Key wordsbehavior learned behavior

instinct behavior

Write the vocabulary word twice .

Behavior

Learned behavior

Instinct behavior


1. Young animals learn to behave by watching and copying adults True.

2. A mother sea turtle buries her eggs in the sand True.

3. A learned behavior is a behavior that an animal knows without learn it False.

4. Instinct behaviors are behaviors that come from watching other animals or through experience

False.

5. A behavior is anything an organism does True.

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Beginners

Fill in the blanks with the word that best completes each sentence:-

1 .Behavior is adaptation that may help an animal survive in its environment.

2 .An instinct is a behavior that an animal knows without learning it.

3 .Animal learn to hunt by watching other animals.

4 .A behavior is anything an organism does.

Directions : Label the following pictures by using words below:

learned behavior instinct behavior

instinct behavior learned behavior instinct behavior

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behavioradaptation

learninstinct

Answer the following questions ( The answer should be one or two words).

1 .How can a Cub get his food ?

By learning from its mother.

2 .Where does buries a sea turtle its eggs ?

In the sands.

3 .What is instinct behavior?

Any behavior can the animal do it without learning..

4 .How spiders spinning their webs?

It is an instinct behavior.

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Topic 2: Finding Food

Objective: Describe how animals survive in the environment.

Summary

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• Every animal looks for food when it’s hungry. This is an instinctual behavior.

• Some animals learn from watching their parents or other adults. But some

animals can learn by themselves, too.

• Bears wait for fish to swim upstream to catch them. This is a learned behavior.

Key wordsbehavior learned

behaviorinstinct

behavior


behavior

learned behavior

instinct behavior

Match the correct description with the correct term:-

1. Bears come to this steam to food when its hungry

2. Animals look for catch fish

3.A mother lion teaches web to eat insect

4.The spider use its her cub to hunt

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Beginners

Draw a line from the animal to its food:

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Intermediate

Answer the following questions (The answer should be one or two words).

1 .If the polar bear catches and eats 39 seals in 13 days, how many seals did the polar bear catch

each day?

._______________________________________________________________

2 .How many ways for animals to find food?

._______________________________________________________________

3 .How bears survive in the environment?

____________________.____________________________________________

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Topic 3 : Finding Shelter

Objective: Describe how animals survive in the environment.

Summary

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• Birds learn to build nests on buildings when trees are cut down.

• A gopher knows to use its claws to dig into the ground to make a shelter for itself.

Key wordsbehavior learned behavior

instinct behavior


behavior

learned behavior

instinct behavior


1.The gopher uses what it has soil and claws to make a shelter in the ground true.

2. Ants work together to make an anthill True.

3.The deer’s learned to build nests on buildings when trees were cut down False.

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Beginners

Matchthe following pictures that represents to correct shelter:-

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Intermediate

Answer the following questions :

1.How does building an anthill help the group of ants?It provides a shelter for them.

2. Name two animals that build their shelter to survive.

Birds and gopher.

3.

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Active in the night

Sleep during the dayStrong front legs

Whiskers + large eyesFatty layer under fur



Topic 4 : Hibernation

Objective: Describe different ways for animals to survive in the environment.

Summary

Keyword hibernate

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• Animals respond to cold winter weather in different ways.

• Some animals find food or eat food they have hidden.

• Other animals hibernate, or go into a deep, sleeplike state that helps them

survive the cold winter conditions. Hibernating is an instinctive behavior.


hibernate


1. Animals respond to cold winter weather in different ways True.

2. A hibernating animals use too much energy in winter season False.

3. In the spring when the weather warms up, there is less food for the bat False.

4. When the weather turns cold, it is time for many animals to slowdown True.

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Intermediate

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Answer the following questions:

1. Which animals hibernate?Bats and bears.

2. How does an animal respond to cold winter weather?By hibernating or migrating.

3. What is hibernation?

Deep sleeplike state the helps the animal to survive during the winter..



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Topic 5 : Migration

Objective: Describe different ways for animals to survive in the environment.

Summary

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• Animals migrate when they move a long distance as a group from one region to

another and back.

• Many animals, including birds and fish, migrate.

• The path the animals take is learned, but knowing when to migrate is an instinct.

Beginners


1. Many animals, including birds and fish, migrate true.

2. Gray whales have the smallest migration routes of any mammal’s false.

3. Some animals use the sun and stars to find their way true.

4. When the land freezes over in the arctic, tundra swans fly to the warmer south true.

5. Gray whales swim from the cold arctic to warm Mexico to have their young true.

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Intermediate

Choose the correct answer:

1. What is migration?

a) Animals sleeping through the winter

b) Animals preparing to hatch eggs.

c) Animals traveling long distances.

d) Animals getting lost.

2. Which animals hold the record for the longest migration?

a) Gray whales

b) Frog

c) Fish

d) Dolphin

3. Where do emperor penguins go when they migration?

a) Inland, near the north pole

b) Towards the sea, near the south pole

c) Inland, near the south pole

d) Towards the sea, near the south pole

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Answer the following questions (The answer should be one or two words).

1. What are some animals that migrate?

Gray whales and birds.

2. How do the sun and stars help some animals migrate?

By guiding them to the direction.

3. How do birds know when to migrate?

When the weather becomes cold.

4. Why do gray whales migrate?

To find food and give birth.

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