How animals adapt to environments
Science · Organisms & Life Processes · conceptual
Identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment and understand that adaptation may lead to evolution over time
What mastery looks like
- Define adaptation as a feature that helps an organism survive in its environment
- Give at least three examples of adaptations in different organisms and explain how each helps survival
- Explain that over many generations, organisms with helpful adaptations survive and reproduce more, leading to evolution
Check your understanding
Can How animals adapt to environments explain how a camel's humps, a cactus's thick skin, or a polar bear's white fur help them survive where they live, and how these adaptations developed over time?
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