Mrs. Tully’s Class presents:The First Annual Video Conference

onAnimal Habitats, Adaptations and

Migrations

Host Speakers: Mrs. Tully’s Class

Animal Habitats and Biomes

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

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.

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.

• The grasslands are hot and dry• It is perfect for growing crops when there is

water• They have many different names like prairies

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Water Biome

• Animals that live in the Ocean are Whales, Sharks and other big fish.

• Oceans cover about 70% of the earth’s surface.

Water Biome

• Includes wetlands, lakes, rivers and oceans

Water Biome

• Beavers, platypuses and alligators live near rivers .

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.

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.

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.

Animal Adaptations

Adaptations• Animals of all shapes and sizes inhabit the

Earth’s land• Adaptations develop over many years and get

passed on from parents

Physical AdaptationsExamples 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

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

Mimicry

• Butterfly• One is poisonous so it can protect it’s self

and one is not.

Avoidance

• Monkeys• They stay away from predators high in the

trees or where their predator can’t get them.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Chemical Weapons

A ton of animals use chemical weapons to hunt

It helps them kill their preyThe Gila Monster uses

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

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

More Adaptations

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

Migration

• Not all animals migrate• Moving one place to an other is

migration• It is like moving your home• A whale migrates

Playing Dead

• Some animals play dead to trick a predator

• A animal does that so it won’t be eaten

• Most rodents play dead

Great Animal Migrations

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

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

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

Wildebeest!

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

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.

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.

Gray whale migration

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

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

Fun facts

• Killer whales are their only predator• Gray whales are very big but they are

smaller than killer whales

• 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

• Around 500,000 migrate

• 20,000 are from Siberia alone

• But hunters, and habitat loss hurts there migration

• They travel in search of a warmer climate

• They also travel to find more food

• But they go back to breed

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

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

Monarch’s Migration

• The Monarch’s migration to Mexico is 2,000 miles

• They travel in a group of 300,000,000 butterflies.

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.

• 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.

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