EVS Worksheet : Animals Adaptation For Class 3

Introduction

The natural world is a tough place to survive . Faced with competition for resources and sometimes hostile climates, life can be even more difficult for animals.

But, in order to beat the odds and survive, some animals adapted to some pretty interesting and unusual ways.

Adaptation

Adaptations are any behavioural or physical characteristics of an animal that help it to survive in its natural environment. An adaptation is a special skill that helps organisms to survive in their harsh and odd environments. Adaptations could be PHYSICAL, PHYSIOLOGICAL, or BEHAVIOURAL.

Adaptations are influenced by environmental and physical factors, including climate, predators and food availability. Animals have needs like food, water, shelter, and breeding. To meet those needs, animals adapt to their environment.

Animal adaptations are behavioural or physical traits that improve an animal’s chance of survival in their environment. Adaptations are influenced by many environmental factors including terrain, climate, and food availability. Animals have needs such as food, water, shelter, and reproduction. To meet those needs, animals have to adapt to their external environment.

Examples of physical adaptations include beak sharpness, fur colour, fish gills, reptile scales, and bird feathers. Animal mimicry and camouflage are other examples of physical adaptations. These are all things that animals have that help them survive in their environment. Animal mimicry is an Interesting adaptation.

These characteristics fall into three main categories: body parts, body coverings, and behavioural.
Any or all of these types of adaptations play a crucial role in the survival of an animal

Some animals have scales, some have nails, and some animals have spots. Some animals migrate, while some animals hibernate.

Behavioural Adaptation:

Actions animals take to survive in their environments. Examples are hibernation, migration, and instincts. Example: Birds fly south in the winter because they can find more food. Structural Adaptation: A characteristic in a plant or in an animal’s body that helps it to survive in its environment.

Social behaviour – some animals live by themselves, while others live in groups.

Behaviour for protection - An animal’s behaviour sometimes helps to protect the animal. For instance the opossum plays dead. A rabbit freezes when it thinks it has been seen.

• Migration is main example of behavioural adaptations
• Sharp Claws.
• Large beaks.
• Wings/Flying.
• Feathers.
• Fur.
• Scales.

Structural Adaptation

Structural adaptations of animals are the physical features which allow them to compete. Animals have a wide range of structural adaptations including sharp claws to catch prey , dig burrows or scratch trees to signal territories. The scratching of trees is a behavioural adaptation

Examples of Structural Adaptations

• Giraffe’s long neck.
• Giraffe’s long necks help them reach food high up in trees that other animals cannot reach Fish’s gills.
• Beaver’s large pointed teeth.
• Duck’s webbed feet.
• Whale’s blubber.
• Snake’s flexible jaw.
• Bird’s sharp eyesight and sharp claws (some species)

In general, adaptation is a process that can take hundreds And thousands of years. Favourable traits and behaviours increase an animal’s chance of surviving in his or her environment. This enables that animal to pass those traits and behaviours to their babies through the process of inheritance.

Instructions to solve the worksheet

Given below are some behavioural and structural traits of animals, study them and put a X in the chart to show whether each organism's adaptation is structural or behavioural.

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