Year 9 Biology Unit 2 Living Things in Their Environment Lesson 2.2 Animal Adaptations Pages 24-25

Science Year 9
Biology
Unit 2 – Living things in their environment
Lesson 2.2 – Animal adaptations
Coursebook: Pages 24 and 25
Workbook: Pages 20 and 21
Prepared by: Mrs. Fatme Allawa

Starter / Key vocabulary:
Starter / Key ideas / Learning Objectives/ By the end of the lesson
students will be able to:
 Explain the terms given in Key vocabulary above
 Identify adaptations of animals for life in several different habitats
 Adaptation
 Habitat
 Desert
 Structural adaptation
 Behavioral adaptation
 Mammals
 Invertebrates
 Annelids
 Carnivores
 Predator
 Prey
Mid-lesson / Key ideas:
Activity 2.2, Behavioural adaptations of woodlice, emphasises the fact that

the way in which animals behave is an adaptation for survival. Woodlice
are usually available in every country, but if you cannot find any, then you
may be able to use a different invertebrate instead. If you have ‘proper’
choice chambers, these will make the experiment a little easier to do.
Otherwise, you may be able to construct something similar using plastic
Petri dishes or other containers. Students generally greatly enjoy doing
this activity.
1 a There are many possibilities, for example, the little bristles

on an earthworm, which help it to grip the sides of its burrow.
b The oryx provides the best examples of behavioural

adaptations, for example, feeding at night when it is cooler.
Questions in the Coursebook that help students to develop application and implication
skills are marked with the symbol
2 Evaporation is the change from liquid to gas, at a temperature below

boiling point. In a liquid, such as the sweat on the surface of an oryx’s
skin, water particles (molecules) are in constant movement. Some
particles have enough energy to escape the attractive forces of the other
particles and fly off into the air. When it is warmer, more particles have
enough energy to do this. So less evaporation will occur at night, when it
is cooler
3 There are no correct answers to this; students are asked to

come up with sensible suggestions. For example, they might say
that standing on two legs helped early humans to see over tall
grass, so that they could spot predators.
Closure / Key vocabulary:
 Adaptation - the biological mechanism by which organisms adjust to new environments or to changes in their
current environment.
 Habitat – the place where in organism lives.
 Desert - an area of land that receives no more than 25 centimeters (10 inches) of precipitation a year.
 Structural adaptation – physical features of an organism that enable them survive in their environment.
 Behavioral adaptation - ways an organism act to help them survive in their environment.
 Mammals - any member of the group of vertebrate animals in which the young are nourished with milk from
special mammary glands of the mother.
 Invertebrates - any animal that lacks a vertebral column, or backbone.
 Annelids - segmented worms with a tubular body and a specialized digestive system with a terminal mouth
and an anus.
 Carnivores - an animal that feeds on other animals.
 Predator - organisms that hunt and kill other organisms for food.
 Prey - an animal that is caught and killed by another for food.
Key points / Summary
Workbook
Workbook
1 Students are most

likely to mention the
sharp teeth, which
could have been used
for killing prey.
Workbook
Workbook
2 This would mean that the jaw muscles could
contract very strongly. This would have helped
the animal to bite down hard and kill its prey,
and also to bite through bones when it was
eating.
3 It could stand sideways on to the Sun. This
would increase the surface area that was
warmed by the Sun’s rays.
4 a A fossil is the preserved remains of a once-
living organism, that have turned to stone.
After the animal dies, its tissues are replaced
by minerals.
4 b sedimentary
Homework:
- Solve the Science Homework

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Science Year 9

Prepared by: Mrs. Fatme Allawa

Activity 2.2, Behavioural adaptations of woodlice, emphasises the fact that

1 a There are many possibilities, for example, the little bristles

b The oryx provides the best examples of behavioural

2 Evaporation is the change from liquid to gas, at a temperature below

3 There are no correct answers to this; students are asked to

1 Students are most

- Solve the Science Homework

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