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The document summarizes adaptations that allow animals to survive in harsh desert environments and live both on land and in water. It discusses how camels store fat in their hump and have thick skin to conserve water. It also explains that amphibians have webbed feet and lungs that allow them to live in water and on land, breathing through their skin or lungs depending on the environment. The document provides examples of nocturnal and burrowing desert animals and those that aestivate, or sleep through the hot summer months.

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INDIAN SCHOOL MUSCAT

MIDDLE SECTION SCIENCE DEPARTMENT


STD V

LESSON 3
ADAPTATIONS IN ANIMALS
SESSION 3

Topics
Animals living in deserts
and
Amphibians
▪ Common adaptations seen ▪ Nocturnal desert animals keep
in desert animals include ANIMALS LIVING IN DESERTS cool by being active at night,
big ears, light-colored coats, whereas some other desert
humps to store fat, animals get away from the sun's
and adaptations that help heat by digging underground
to conserve water. burrows.
▪
ANIMALS THAT LIVE IN DESERTS

❖ Animals that live in the deserts must adapt to the hot temperature and availability
of less water.
❖ Some of them come out only at night when it is cooler.
❖ The colour of their skin or fur blends in with the colour of the sand.
How does a camel adapt to a hot and dry climate?

❖ The camel has a thick skin to


protect itself from the sun.

❖ The skin is less hairy to


prevent loss of water.

❖ The inside of its mouth has a tough ❖ In its hump the


lining . So it can eat thorny plants camel builds up
like cactus. resources of fat.

❖ Can drink plenty of water in one go ❖ This fat is


. consumed during
❖ Stores the extra water in their the tiring journeys
body and survive for a long time from one oasis to
without drinking water. another.
SPECIAL ADAPTATIONS

• It’s long , strong legs have cushion-like


soles to help the animal to walk easily on
sand and stones.

• The wide spread hooves make it easier for


the animal to stand on the shifting sand.

• The presence of bushy eyebrows and two


rows of eyelashes help to prevent sand
from entering their eyes.
DESERT LIZARD, DESERT RAT, DESERT KANGAROO RATS
Some animals in the
deserts settle down
to a long sleep in the
hot summer months
to save water. This
summer sleep is
called aestivation

Adaptations afford the organism a better chance


to survive in its surroundings.
Animals living in desert regions SUMMARY

Watch this video to sum up the adaptations of animals living


in deserts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAs7lqce1cI
AMPHIBIANS NEWT
Frogs, toads , newts, salamanders and caecilians

▪ Frogs and toads are amphibians but are quite


separate species. Amphibians are cold-blooded,
egg-laying creatures that require water for the
development of eggs and larvae.
TOAD
▪ Toads are plump, warty and move by crawling
rather than jumping.

▪ Amphibians either leap with their powerful hind


limbs (e.g. grass frog) or walk (e.g. ordinary toads).
Short fore limbs keep the front part of the
animal’s body off the ground.

▪ Great majority of amphibians can swim in water


using their webbed feet.
How do Amphibians adapt to living on land ?

❖ Amphibians live in both water and on land;


Amphibian larvae are born and live in water,
and they breathe using gills.

❖ They breathe through lungs on land.

❖ Protective skin and eyelids allow them


to adapt to vision outside the water.
AMPHIBIANS
❖ Skin prevents loss of water.

❖ An eardrum developed to separate the external


ear from the middle ear.
Mode of breathing in Amphibians

Young amphibians, like tadpoles, use gills to breathe like


the fish and they do not leave the water.
As the tadpole grows, the gills disappear and lungs grow.

The tail disappears in adulthood (in frogs and toads).

The other means of breathing for amphibians is diffusion


across the skin.
Breathing through the skin is called cutaneous breathing.

Cutaneous gas exchange, is a form of respiration in which


gas exchange occurs across the skin of an organism
rather than gills or lungs.

The nictitating membrane is a transparent third eyelid


present in some amphibians such as frogs .

This eyelid can be drawn across the eye for protection


and to moisten it while maintaining vision.
How is a frog adapted to live both on AMPHIBIANS
land and in water?

▪ Frogs have many adaptations that


allow to live on land and in water.

▪ These include lungs, porous and


regenerating skin, superior vision,
webbed feet and mucus excretion.

▪ Frogs may breathe through their


skin or their lungs.

▪ The lungs are a much more efficient


way for frogs to acquire oxygen.
AMPHIBIANS - SUMMARY
have They spend a part of their lives in water and
Spend a part of their lives in water and a part on land.

▪ Have limbs that are suited to swim.


▪ The hind limbs of frogs and toads are stronger than
their fore limbs.
▪ They have webbed feet that help them to swim in
water.

• Have moist skin to breathe in water.


• Breathing through the skin is called cutaneous
breathing.
• Have lungs which help them to breathe on land.

• When conditions are not favourable frogs hibernate.

• Nictitating membrane prevents water from entering


into their eyes and allows to see underwater.
REVIEW EXERCISE
1Think and answer.
What is stored in the hump of a camel, water or fat?

2. Choose the correct word and complete the sentence.


Amphibians breathe through gills / moist skin / lungs on land.

3. Name the group of animals that can spend a part of


their lives in water and a part on land.
HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT

Q1. Read these sentences and answer the


questions that follow.
A camel can close its nostrils.
A camel has thick patches of skin on its
knees. Q2. Name any two adaptations
of amphibians.
How are these adaptations useful to the
camel?

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