Animal Adaptation and behavior

Animal Adaptation and behavior

By: Shruthi,Anvita,Aimee,Archana and Anika

Animal Adaptations and behavior

What are we doing in today's lesson ?

Ans: we are going to learn types of animals.

• Terrestrial Animals

• Aquatic Animals

• Vertebrates

• Invertebrates

• Arboreal

• Amphibians

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• Mammals

• Aerial

Facts about Animal Adaptation and behavior

Terrestrial Animals

Terrestrial animals are animals that live predominantly or entirely on land (e.g., cats, ants, spiders), as compared with aquatic animals, which live predominantly or entirely in the water (e.g., fish, lobsters, octopuses), or amphibians, which rely on a combination of aquatic and terrestrial habitats (e.g., frogs, or newts).

Aquatic Animals

Amazing facts about aquatic animals Animals with some of the longest lives are the Marion’s tortoise (152 years), the fin whale (116 years) and the deep-sea clam (100 years). There are about 40 species or kinds of porpoises and dolphins. Porpoises and dolphins communicate with each other by squeaking, growling, moaning, and whistling.

Amphibians

Amphibians are a crucial link in the evolutionary chain between water dwelling fish and land dwelling vertebrates. ...

The first amphibians appeared on earth more than 370 million years ago during the Devonian period.

The Chinese giant salamander is the largest known amphibian reaching 180 cms.

The smallest amphibian is a frog known as the Paedophryne amauensis measuring 7.7 mm.

Arboreal

Arboreal: an adjective in biology for an animal which lives in the trees. All forests have had animals living in them. Those animals have adaptations which enable them to live and move about in trees. The earliest one known is Suminia, a synapsid of the late Permian, about 260 million years ago.

Aerial

Aerial animals are basically any animal who can naturally fly, glide, or soar in the air. Aerial animals include birds, insects, bats, sugar gliders, flying squirrels, and many others!

Vertebrates

Behavioural adaptations Behaviour is the set of responses that an organism makes to stimuli. Stimuli are environmental changes that an organism can detect. A behavioural adaptation is a behaviour that helps an organism to survive and/or reproduce in its environment.

Invertebrates

Invertebrates are animals without a backbone or bony skeleton. They range in size from microscopic mites and almost invisible flies to giant squid with soccer-ball-size eyes. This is by far the largest group in the animal kingdom: 97 percent of all animals are invertebrates.

Mammals

All mammals (apart from the duck-billed platypus) give birth to live babies, which are then fed on their mother's milk. Most mammals give their young more protection and training than other animals do. Mammals have hair or fur. ... Mammals are warm-blooded.

Quiz Time !!!

Get your facts ready

Open Ended

Name a few Terrestrial animals

Multiple Select

which are aquatic animals ?

• jelly fish

• bull

• cat

• whale

• lizard

Fill in the Blank

What animal has 3 hearts

Multiple Select

Male platypuses have venomous spurs. ...

• TRUE

• FALSE

Fill in the Blank

Frogs breath out of their

Multiple Select

chose true facts about chameleons

• SKIN CRYSTALS ENABLE THEM TO CHANGE COLOR AT WILL. ... UNLIKE MANY LIZARDS, CHAMELEONS CAN'T REGROW THEIR TAILS.

• THEIR FEET WORK LIKE SALAD TONGS. ..

• they breathe out of their toungs

Open Ended

Name a few mammals

Multiple Choice

the mammal is ...

• clownfish

• cat

Multiple Choice

which is true ?

• Cats can rotate their ears 180 degrees.

• cats can liive for 50 years

Multiple Choice

wich is fake ??

• The number of insect species is believed to be between six and ten million.

• Insect bodies have three parts, the thorax, abdomen and head.

• incects dont have hearts

• Insects have three pairs of legs.

Thank You !

Thats it and thats all