Adaptations: Adaptation

What is an adaptation?

• 1) A special skill that helps animals and people survive and do things.

• 2) Animals and plants.

What are some fish adaptations?

• 1) Different kinds of mouths

• 2) Body shape

• 3) Ways fish protect themselves

• 4) All of the above

Why do needle fish have a beak?

• 1) To catch small and slippery fish

• 2) Because they look like a bird

What do ray fish teeth look like?

• 1) Sharp octagons

• 2) Flat hexagons 

Why do ray fish have hard teeth ?

• 1) Because their body is flat

• 2) To crush hard shelled prey like scallops

 What adaptation allows archer fish to eat insects?

• 1) Body shape

• 2) Special jaw

How does the Monkfish catch it's pray?  

• They wait in the shadows 

• They use a modified spine as a fishing pole

What helps the Lung Fish stick to the rock on the ocean floor?  

• his fins

• his suction cup belly

What makes sharks swim faster and more quietly?

• 1) Their big body

• 2) Their skin (dermal denticles)

• 3) Their tail

Why do animals use camouflage? 

• 1) To be unique

• 2) To protect themselves or to attack others