This clear adaptations definition for elementary science students provides numerous examples and opportunities to recognize adaptations for yourself. Understanding this one term will help you make sense of the earth's incredible diversity of living things!
The video points out that adaptations are genetic traits that living things inherit from their parents and pass on to their offspring, not things they find or learn during their lifetimes. Students also learn that adaptations vary between individuals and give particular organisms advantages and/or disadvantages. When these differences are advantageous, they can be passed on to their offspring. This is natural selection and it's an important mechanism for living things to become even better adapted to their lifestyle and environment!
Adaptations can also work to attract a mate, which helps them produce offspring and pass on their adaptations.
0:00 Introduction
0:12 Adaptations definition
0:29 Adaptations that help animals move in a certain way
0:41 Adaptations are INHERITED traits!
1:11 Adaptations can help animals eat certain things
1:32 Adaptations to different ecosystems
2:10 Adaptations for defense
2:48 Adaptations for attracting a mate
3:16 Try recognizing adaptations for yourself!
4:28 Adaptations review
Credits:
Arctic fox (still)
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David Mark, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Prickly pear
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Lawrencemilovich, CC BY-SA 4.0 [ Ссылка ], via Wikimedia Commons
Lion footage
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Bernard DUPONT, CC BY-SA 2.0 [ Ссылка ], via Wikimedia Commons
Giraffe
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Porcupine in tree
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Prairie chicken clips by Julio Mulero and Don Henise, via Flickr and Creative Commons usage
Ana's hummingbird video by Mick Thompson, whose stunning work can be found at [ Ссылка ]
Stickbug photo by John Abbott, used by permission
Jackrabbit: Jim Harper, CC BY-SA 2.5 [ Ссылка ], via Wikimedia Commons
Kid with flippers by Brian Jolly
