🎯 Learning outcomes
- Explain how animals are adapted to their habitats
- Classify animals by what they eat and how they move
- Describe the need to protect wildlife and endangered animals
Before you start: Animals and their homes.
📖 Explanation
Animals have special features, called adaptations, that help them live in their habitats. Camels have humps that store fat, long eyelashes and wide feet for the desert. Fish have gills to breathe in water and fins to swim. Polar animals have thick fur and fat. Birds have hollow bones and feathers for flight.
Herbivores eat plants, carnivores eat other animals and omnivores eat both. Teeth match diet: cows have flat teeth for grinding grass; tigers have sharp canines for tearing meat.
Cutting forests, hunting and pollution destroy habitats. Some animals, like the Great Indian Bustard, are endangered. National parks and sanctuaries protect them, and Project Tiger has helped tiger numbers in India grow.
The snow leopard of Ladakh has thick fur and a long, thick tail it wraps around itself for warmth in the cold mountains.
✗ A whale is a fish because it lives in the sea
✓ A whale is a mammal: it breathes air with lungs and feeds its young on milk.
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Choose an Indian animal and make a poster showing its habitat, food and two adaptations.
✍️ Question bank with answers
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Which feature helps a fish live in water?
Answer
A. gills
Gills take oxygen from water.
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A bear eats fruits, honey and fish. It is a
Answer
D. omnivore
It eats both plants and animals.
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Which Indian bird is critically endangered?
Answer
D. Great Indian Bustard
Its grassland habitat has shrunk greatly.
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Name an animal adapted to the desert.
Answer
camel
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What kind of teeth help a tiger tear meat?
Answer
sharp canines
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Give two adaptations of a duck for life in water.
Marking points
- Webbed feet to paddle
- Oily feathers that keep water out
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Why are animals becoming endangered and what can we do? Give three causes and three actions.
Marking points
- Causes: cutting forests, hunting, pollution
- Actions: protect forests and sanctuaries, stop hunting and trade, reduce pollution and plastic
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A road is planned through a forest with elephants. Suggest one way to protect the elephants.
Answer
- Build underpasses or overpasses as elephant corridors
- Lower speed limits and warning signs
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Draw a camel and label two adaptations.
Answer
- Hump storing fat
- Long eyelashes or wide padded feet
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