<p> Due Date:______</p><p>Unit 1 Project: Animal Adaptations.</p><p>We have learned that organisms have special characteristics that help them survive called adaptations. For example, a bird might have an adaptation for eating sunflower seeds and ants. If the ant population dies out, the bird can still eat seeds in order to live. </p><p>In this activity, you will design a make-believe organism with special adaptations. Then you will describe how these adaptations will help the organism live. </p><p>1. Study the chart on the back page. Choose one adaptation from each column. For example an organism might be a scavenger that burrows underground and has spikes on its tail.</p><p>Diet:______</p><p>Type of Transportation:______</p><p>Special Adaptation:______</p><p>2. You will now design an organism that has the three adaptations you chose. You may make a poster or a 3-D example of your organism. Make sure you include a description (or a caption if you make a poster) of your organism’s name, tell what it looks like, what ecosystem it lives in, and how its adaptations help it survive.</p><p>3. All students will also write a paragraph and possibly give (time-permitting) an oral presentation that includes the following: </p><p>- The organism’s name</p><p>- The three adaptations it has. </p><p>- In what ecosystem would your organism most likely survive- the desert, rain forest, plains, ice-caps, mountain, ocean, etc. EXPLAIN YOUR ANSWER</p><p>- What organisms does you imaginary organism eat? - What kind of organism is your organism (mammal, insect, reptile, bird, amphibian, fish)?</p><p>- What modern or ancient organism is you organism most like? Explain the similarities between the two organisms.</p><p>** Neatness and effort will be assessed on this assignment. I should be able to tell you spent more than 1 day on this project</p><p>** For the written paragraph, you should use correct writing conventions (punctuation, grammar, and spelling)</p>