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. 3-LS4-3, 3- Key words pattern camoufla ge mimicry orchid mantis snow leopard’s
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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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Beginners
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.
Unit # 3 Plants & Animals
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
Write whether each statement is "true" or "false".
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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Beginners
Unit # 3 Plants & Animals
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
Write whether each statement is "true" or "false".
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: