Biomes and Animal Adaptations: Mrs. Tully and Ms. Purdy's class, April 2009

1. Mrs. Tully’s Class presents:
The First Annual Video Conference
on
Animal Habitats, Adaptations and
Migrations
Host Speakers: Mrs. Tully’s Class

2. Animal Habitats and Biomes

3. FACTS ABOUT THE
TUNDRA/POLAR REGION
• The Tundra is very cold and has a lot of ice
• The Tundra includes the northern lands of Europe,
Asia, and North America
• The Tundra is the Earth’s coldest biome

4. More Facts About The Tundra/Polar
Region
• The Artic Tundra is a vast and treeless area of a
low, swampy plains in the far north around the
Artic Ocean.
• In the Summer, a thin layer of topsoil thaws and
creates many pools, lakes, and marshes where
mosquitoes, midges, and blackflies hang out.

5. Some Facts You Should Know
About The Tundra/Polar Region• Another type of tundra is the alpine tundra.
• More than 100 species of migrant birds are
attracted by insect food.
• Other animals that live in the Tundra include
polar bears, artic foxes, and gray wolves.

6. • The grasslands are hot and dry
• It is perfect for growing crops when there is
water
• They have many different names like prairies

7. • The grass lands are hundreds of miles long
• Be careful there are many ticks
• The grassland are super cool

8. Deciduous Forests
• Deciduous trees loose their leaves in the fall
• The natural rot of the fallen leaves on the
ground enriches the soil and supports all
kinds of plants and animal life
• The forests has so much life

9. Deciduous Forests
• The Deciduous Forest is a lively place
• It is full of plants and animals like the hedgehog, the
red fox, the bat, and don’t be surprised to see
monkeys!
• The Deciduous Forest has a mild temperature

10. Fabulous Fun Facts
• Among all the life some plants give us
medicine
• Tons of birds and some insects might
sneak up on you
• The Deciduous Forest is awesome

11. Facts about the rainforest
• Tropical rainforests are found in Asia,
Africa, South America, Central America,
and on many Pacific islands
• They get more than 70 inches of rain each
year

12. Cool Facts you should know
• It has more plants than any other biome
• It is a perfect biome for over 15 million
plants and animals.
• The rain forest is made up of evergreen
trees

13. Awesome Facts
• Many plants for medicine are in the rain
forest
• The trees in the rain forest grow between
100 and 200 feet tall
• Rain forests is an endangered biome
because people have cut trees and sold it as
fire wood.

14. Water Biome
• Animals that live in the Ocean are Whales,
Sharks and other big fish.
• Oceans cover about 70% of the earth’s surface.

15. Water Biome
• Includes wetlands, lakes, rivers and oceans

16. Water Biome
• Beavers, platypuses and alligators live near
rivers .

17. Desert Biome
• A desert is an area where little or no life
exists because of lack of water.
• The deserts are usually hot or warm they are
very different from the tundra and polar
region.

18. Deserts
• Some locations of deserts are the Sahara desert,
north Africa and Australia.
• The climate of the desert is 10 inches of water
each year.
• There is not much seasonal changes all there is it
changes to spring to summer.
• Average temperatures during the day and night
the day is 100 degrees and at night it is 40-50
degrees.

19. Deserts
• Typical weather is sunny, warm, dry and humid.
• The soil is sandy and rocky.
• Some of the plants that are in the desert are
saguaro cactus, barrel cactus, old man cactus,
prickly pear cactus.
• Some animals that are in the desert are the camel
the addax the cactus wren and the fat sand rat.

20. Animal Adaptations

21. Adaptations
• Animals of all shapes and sizes inhabit the
Earth’s land
• Adaptations develop over many years and get
passed on from parents

22. Physical Adaptations
Examples of physical adaptations are:
• Being able to move very smoothly and quickly
• Having sharp claws to attack there predators
• Having the ability to attack there prey at any
time

23. Behavioral Adaptations
• Having the ability to camouflage with their
surroundings
• Having a special appearance when they
approach there predators
• Moving to new places to live

24. Mimicry
• Butterfly
• One is poisonous so it can protect it’s self
and one is not.

25. Avoidance
• Monkeys
• They stay away from predators high in the
trees or where their predator can’t get them.

26. Facts about special mouth parts
• Special mouth parts is when a animal
helps a other animal like the bird to get
food or water so it can survive
• Birds have a special mouth part to help
them suck the juice out of the flower

27. More information about special
mouth parts
• Special mouth parts can be found on a
bee or some types of birds
• Bee’s need special mouth parts to get
their honey back to their hive

28. More information you should know
about special mouth parts
• Birds need special mouth parts to get food and
water so they can survive
• Special mouth parts are very important to all
animals that use special mouth parts
By, Brenna Linnane

29. Escape
• The ability to use speed against the enemy to
outrun or escape
• Examples of animals with this ability are Deer,
Ostriches, Cheetahs, Jaguars, Antelopes, etc.
• A good example is when the deer runs away from
a Lion

30. Protective Coloration
• An animal uses camouflage with it’s
surroundings so the enemy won’t notice them
• Examples of animals with this ability are the
arctic hare, chameleon, seals, etc.
• A good example is when the chameleon
changes color to match its surroundings

31. Protective Resemblance
• It is when a animal looks like something
else to stay alive
• The walking stick is a great example it
looks like a stick
• The sandfish is another good one it looks
like sand

32. Body covering
• Something that protects the animal from
dieing
• Like a turtle and it’s shell
• Not many people know this by the poison
dart frog

33. Being able to see in the dark
• An animal can see in the dark
• Bat can see in the dark so they can get food
• Owl can see in the dark

34. Special Weapons
Lots of different animals use special
weapons
Special weapons come in all shapes and
sizes
Some animals have sharp points that hurt
their predators
Mostly smaller animals use special
weapons

35. Group Defense
Lots of animals use group defense
Group defense is used to make it so if a
animal tries to take them all they can take it
down
Big herbivores normally use group defense

36. Chemical Weapons
A ton of animals use chemical weapons to
hunt
It helps them kill their prey
The Gila Monster uses

37. HIBERNATION
• Hibernating is escaping from the cold for the
winter in a safe place
• These animals will sleep for a long period of
time until it gets warmer
• Hibernation is usually for the winter
• It is an important part in surviving

38. FRIGHT
• Fright is something that animals use to
survive.
• It is a thing animals use to scare other
animals so they won’t eat them
• Fright is a good thing to have for defense
and attack

39. More Adaptations
• The tail is a very important part in survival
• Or a sharp teeth to bite something
• Some body parts are adaptations to

40. Migration
• Not all animals migrate
• Moving one place to an other is
migration
• It is like moving your home
• A whale migrates

41. Playing Dead
• Some animals play dead to trick a
predator
• A animal does that so it won’t be
eaten
• Most rodents play dead

42. Great Animal Migrations

43. Migration
• Migration is a move that can be caused by
food scarce or climate change
• Most of the time an animal moves
somewhere for a period of time then returns
• Sometimes migration takes a lifetime to
complete

44. Seeking Food And Water
• During winter migration birds must search harder
for there pray
• Some birds including hawks fly to Mexico in
search of food
• Animals must be careful traveling because animals
are hungry

45. Reproductive Migration
• Migration can happen to get young away from
predator until gotten older
• The green turtle swims 1,242 miles to have young
• Eels swim from North America to Puerto Rico and
then stay there with young for 3 years

46. Wildebeest!
• The wildebeest travels almost 2,000 miles.
• It lives in Serengeti Plains, Tanzania.
• It migrates to Masai Mara, Kenya.

47. Wildebeest!
• 200,000 of the wildebeest die in the trip.
• There are 2 million wildebeest in a herd.
• The wildebeest leave because of the rain.
• The trip can take place for at least a couple
months.

48. Wildebeest!
• On the trip the cheetah will try to attack the
baby.
• The mom will get in the way of the cheetah so
it will hit her and not the baby.
• On the migration trip they will eat the dead
animals that are smaller then them That have
been dead at least 1 week.

49. Gray whale migration
• The Gray Whale lives in Mexico
• It can travel 6,000 miles
• It migrates to the arctic

50. Gray whale
• There are 27,000 Gray whales left
• They migrate because they travel to cold
water for feeding and warm weather for
giving birth

51. Fun facts
• Killer whales are their only predator
• Gray whales are very big but they are
smaller than killer whales

52. • The sandhill crane migrates1,200-2,500
miles.
• They will start in Idaho, North Dakota,
South Dakota, Nebraska, Alaska, Canada,
or Siberia.
• They migrate to Sulphur Springs Valley,
Arizona

53. • Around 500,000 migrate
• 20,000 are from Siberia alone
• But hunters, and habitat loss hurts there
migration

54. • They travel in search of a warmer
climate
• They also travel to find more food
• But they go back to breed

55. The Monarch Butterfly
• The Monarch Butterfly lives in Northern
America and Canada
• They migrate to seek warmer weather,
because in winter northern America and
Canada are very cold

56. Monarch’s Difficulties
• The Monarch butterfly’s journey to Mexico
is tough because they’re so delicate
• If a rain storm falls the weight of the rain
cold kill them
• Logging makes the migration tough too
because it ruins their habitat environment

57. Monarch’s Migration
• The Monarch’s migration to Mexico is
2,000 miles
• They travel in a group of 300,000,000
butterflies.

58. The Tundra Swan
• The tundra swan starts its migration at the
shores of north Carolina.
• The number of tundra swans that migrate is
10,000.
• It migrates to The Artic Circle in Canada
and Alaska.

59. • The tundra swan travels about 4,000 miles
when it migrates.
• This animal migrates because it seeks
colder weather climate but will leave again
before winter.
• Amazingly it has no struggles along the
way.

60. Questions or comments?
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