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Adaptations: Plants and Animals
 

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Directions:  Select the Internet address above a set of questions to find the answers. If you need extra space for your information, use the back of the paper. Please use the information you collected to create a presentation.  It could be in PowerPoint, a poster, or a report that could be presented to your class.
http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/rforest/adapt.htm

Write a definition for adaptation.

 
 
 
 

How does adaptation help animals?

 
 
 
 

Give specific examples of adaptations which allow two creatures to survive in their environment.

 
 
 
 

Describe adaptations that desert plants and animals have developed to live in their environment.  Be specific and give examples.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Describe ways that plants in the rainforest have learned to adapt. Give specific examples.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/rforest/plants/
Use the table below to collect information on 4 or more specific kinds of rainforest plants.  Explain how they are adapted to their environment. (Click on Tropical Rainforest Plants and Plant Adaptations.)

Plant Name/plant parts Adaptations
 

 

  
 

 

  
 

 

  
 

 

  
http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/rforest/  
Use the table below to collect information on 4 or more specific kinds of rainforest animals .  Explain how they are adapted to their environment. (Click on Tropical Rainforest Animals and select the four animals from the list on the left.)
Animal Name Adaptations
 

 

  
 

 

  
 

 

  
 

 

  
http://mbgnet.mobot.org/sets/desert/index.htm

Use the site above to find information about plants that have developed adaptations for the desert biome. (Click on Desert Plants on the left side of the screen.)

Plant Name/plant parts Adaptations
 

 

  
 

 

  
 

 

  
 

 

  
Describe ways 4 of the desert animals in the website above have developed adaptations to live in the desert successfully. (Click on Desert Animals on the left side of the screen and select the animals of your choice from the left side of the screen.)
 
Animal Name Adaptations
 

 

  
 

 

  
 

 

  
 

 

  

Adaptation Scavenger Hunt was created by Barbara Jones Revised October 01, 2004
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