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Adaptations
• Animals and plants inherit characteristics from their parents.
• These special features and behaviors help them survive in its environment.
• Adaptations: physical feature orbehavior that helps organisms survive in its environment.
• Environment: everything that surrounds a living thing.
• A plant or animal adapted to one ecosystem might not survive in a different ecosystem.• Example: a hare that lives in a snowy environment may not survive in a desert.

Animal Adaptations
• Animals have many adaptations that help them survive in their environment.
• Adaptations suchas sharp teeth, beak or claws help them get food.
• Other adaptations like stingers, quills, smelly sprays, or bitter tasting fish protect some animals from getting eaten.
• Some adaptations formoving like fins enable a fish to swim away from its enemies.
• Hibernation: state of rest, is a behavior that helps animals survive low temperatures.
• Animals that hibernate: bats, chipmunks,marmots, bears

Plant Adaptations
• Like animals, plants have many adaptations that help them survive in their environment.
• cactus thorns protect plants from harm.
• other adaptations help themreproduce, help plants pollinate or spread their seeds
• adaptations like harmful oils and thorns protect a plant from getting eaten.
• some flowering plants depend on insects to pollinateCharacteristics of living things
• characteristics: qualities an organism has



Inherited characteristics
• Animals and plants inherit their characteristics from their parents and look very much like them.• inherit: receive characteristics from an organisms parents

Parents, Off springs and Advantages
• competition: 2 or more living things need the same resource to survive
• ex; male giraffes usetheir long necks to fight with other males. The winner is more attractive to the female giraffe. The longer and stronger the neck, the better chance to pass this characteristic on.
• advantage:...