🐫 Animal Adaptations and Nutrient Transport

What you’ll learn

1. Built to SurviveDefine adaptation and tell apart physical (body) and behavioural (action) adaptations.An adaptation is a feature or behaviour that helps a living thing survive where it lives. Physical adaptations are body parts, like blubber or claws, while behavioural adaptations are actions, like migrating or hunting in a pack. Adaptations build up over many generations.
2. Adaptations EverywhereGive examples of physical and behavioural adaptations, such as blubber, beak shapes, and migration.Animals show adaptations everywhere. A polar bear's blubber keeps it warm, and bird beaks are shaped for their food — hooked for meat, thin for nectar, strong for seeds. Migration is a behavioural adaptation, where birds fly to warmer places to survive winter.
3. Moving Nutrients AroundExplain that blood transports nutrients and oxygen in animals, and that plants carry water from roots to leaves.Living things must move food and oxygen inside their bodies. In animals, the heart pumps blood through vessels, delivering nutrients and oxygen to every cell. In plants, roots soak up water and minerals that travel up tubes in the stem to the leaves. Both are ways of transporting nutrients.

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