Did You Know?
Some animals change colors to hide!
How Animals Adapt
Animals grow traits to help them live.
How Plants Adapt
Plants grow roots to drink water.
What adaptation Does
Helps animals find food.
Helps plants get sunlight.
Keeps animals safe from harm.
Lets plants grow in dry places.
Helps animals stay warm or cool.
Lets plants spread their seeds.
More About adaptation
Adaptation has been around for a long time. It helps life on Earth. Animals and plants change to fit their homes. This helps them live and grow.
Adaptation is in our lives too. We use tools to help us. We wear clothes to stay warm. We learn to do things better.
In the future, animals and plants will keep changing. They will adapt to new homes. This is how life stays strong!
How Topics Connect
graph TD
A["Adaptation"] --> B["Dynamic Evolutionary Process"]
B --> C["Natural Selection"]
C --> D["Enhances Evolutionary Fitness"]
A --> E["State Reached by Population"]
A --> F["Phenotypic Trait"]
F --> G["Adaptive Trait"]
G --> H["Maintained Through Natural Selection"]
What Do These Words Mean?
adaptation:the way living things change to survive better in their surroundings
evolutionary process:the gradual change in living things over time
natural selection:the process where the best-suited organisms survive and reproduce
evolutionary fitness:how well an organism can survive and have babies
phenotypic trait:a visible characteristic of an organism that helps it survive
