Animal Adaptation Scavenger Hunt
Animal Report Datasheet                                                                                        Teacher Suggestions

Directions:  Click on the site above a set of questions to find the answers.  Write the answers on your data sheet below. (Teachers, print pages 1-2 prior to students doing the scavenger hunt.)

A.  Animal Environments
 http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/earthsysflr/natural.html

1.  What is an environment?
 

2.  What things make up what the place is like (physical environment) ?

3.  What are some different physical environments a place might have?

4.  Click on the NEXT button at the bottom of the webpage.
What do all environments do over time?

5.  What probably will happened to California in ten million years according to this webpage?

6.  Every time a physical environment changes, what happens to the plants and animals of that place?

Click the BACK button on the web browser to return to the datasheet.

B.  Animal Covering: How It Helps Animals Adapt

Camouflage and Mimicry Internet Sites

7.  The sites above have information to help you fill out the chart below.  Write in the names of animals that are examples of each of the kind of adaptation.  Click on each website to collect information.  Use your textbook or library to find more.

C.  Write an animal report.  Use the Internet sites below to help you find information about an animal.  The Teacher will print the datasheet.
 

 Click on the Internet address below to play a game about camouflage. http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/camouflage/camouflage.html

Next, try the Internet site below to view different kinds of camouflage and mimicry.  Be sure you read the directions carefully.  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/leopards/seeinggame.html