1. Adaptations

2. What is an adaptation? • An adjustment or change in the structure or behavior of an organism that makes it more suited to its environment.

3. 2 Types of Adaptations: Structural and Behavioral Structural Adaptations: physical features of an organism that helps them to survive • Examples: structure of teeth, color of an organism, bird’s beak

4. Types of Structural Adaptations 1. Camouflage

5. Camouflage

6. Camouflage

7. 2. Mimicry-when an animal copies another animal’s appearance, actions, or sounds Can you guess which one is a sea slug and which 
is the flatworm mimic? The sea slug gives off 
poisonous, smelly chemicals to discourage its 
predators.  Why would the flatworm want to 
look like the sea slug?

8. 3. Chemical Defense

9. Examples of Structural Adaptations

10. Behavioral Adaptations • Things or actions that organisms do to survive Examples: bird calls, bird migrations

12. Arctic Fox

13. Desert Fox