SCIENCE 4

•Quarter 2 Week 2
Infer that body structures help
animals adapt and survive in their
particular habitat
S4LT-IIa-b-4
Body Structures That
Help Animals
Adapt and Survive
in their Particular
Habitat
DAY 1
Directions: Solve the puzzle below. Write
your answers in your notebook.
• Animals play an important yet
unique role in human life. We
use animals for our own benefit,
and sometimes forget that they
are also living things.
• There are times that we forget
to treat them like humans. Just
like humans, animals also have
developed parts of the body
adapted for survival in a certain
environment.
• This adaptation can protect
them from predators and from
harsh weather. There are a
number of ways that animals
can adapt.
Directions: Match Column A with its use in Column
B. Write your answers in your notebook.

Column A Column B
1. scales a. an outside covering used by shrimps and lobsters
2. shells b. protection against disease and from other animals
3. exoskeleton c. covering of clams and mussels
4. fins d. used for breathing underwater
5. gills e. used for swimming
6. fur f. covering of animals to keep them warm
7. feather g. covering of animals that is used for flying
8. smooth skin h. used for breathing
9. legs i. used for walking
10. wings j. used for flying
Points to Remember:
➢Adaptation is the structure or behavior that
helps an organism to survive in its
environment.

➢ Marine/Aquatic animals are animals living in

water

Adaptive Structure of Animals Living in Water scales-

protection against disease and from other animals
exoskeleton- an outside covering used by shrimps and lobsters
shell- covering of clams and mussels gills- used for breathing
underwater fins- used for swimming
•Land/ terrestrial animals are
animals living on land. They
have lungs for breathing.
•Adaptive Structure of Land
Animals
• fur - covering of animals to
keep them warm
•feather - covering of animals
that is used for flying smooth
•skin - used for breathing
•scales - used for protection
•legs - used for walking
•wings - used for flying
Activity: “Adaptive Structures”
Directions: Read each word below. In your notebook, write W if
the word talks about adaptive structure of animals living in water
and L, if it is an adaptive structure of animals living on land.

1. gills and fins –

2. fur –
3. feather –
4. legs –
5. wings -
Directions: List down 5 animals that can survive in the
following environment. Write your answer in your notebook.
Generalizations
What adaptive structures of
animals helped them to live on
land and on water?
Directions: Read each question carefully. Write the letter of the
correct answer in your notebook.

1. Which group of animals live in a water habitat?

a. fish, squid, crab b. horse, goat, monkey
b. c. dolphin, carabao, hawk d. tadpole, grasshopper, hawk

2. Why can fish live in water?

I. They have tail that helps them swim.
II. They can open their eyes under the water.
III. They have mouth that can drink much water
IV. They have gills that helps them breath in water.
a. I and III b. I and IV
c. I and II d. III and IV
3. What characteristic do land animals have?
a. legs for walking c. fins for swimming
b. wings for flying d. gills for breathing

4. How are frogs, snakes and grasshoppers

protected from their prey?
c. They play dead.
d. They secrete a poisonous substance.
c. They blend color with their environment.
d. They mimic the shape, smell, and sound of their
prey.

5. What makes a cat feel warm?

DAY 2
From the picture, what are the animals that live in water? On land? Both land and water?

• What are the different body parts of these animals?

• Why do you think these animals have these body parts?
• Do you think these are important? Why?
Direction: Write True if the
statement is correct and False if it
is not.

1. Animals have different body structures

for protection and adaptation.
2. Mimicry is another term for
protective coloration.
3. Animals that live on cold places can
also live on desert.
4. Frogs can live both on land and water.
5. It’s good to kill wild animals whenever
we encounter them.
Activity : “Food
Getting”
• Directions:
In your notebook, write the
body parts of the following
animals which they use in
getting food. Choose your
answer from the choices.
Some animals use the following to get and
eat their food:
claws

beaks

teeth

sticky tongue movable jaws

sucking tubes

paws
• ➢ Camouflage is the ability of
an animal to change its color
or markings in order to blend
to its surroundings
• ➢ Ex: leaf-tailed gecko, wrap
around spider, and gray tree
frog Example: The leaf-tailed
gecko is an exact match to the
brown dry leaves it likes to
hang out on, making it
invisible to predators.
 Activity : “Body Parts”
Directions: Choose the body part used for getting food
of the given animals. Write the letter of the correct
answer in your notebook.
1. chicken
a. paws b. beak c. feather d. cockscomb
2. cow
a. claws b. paws c. teeth d. beaks
3. bird
a. teeth b. beak c. feather d. cockscomb
4. iguana
a. feet b. sticky tongue c. movable jaws d. claws
5. Cat
a. paws b. sucking tube c. movable jaws d. beaks
6. bees
a. paws b. sucking tube c. beaks d. movable
jaws
7. goat
a. claws b. paws c. teeth d. beaks
8. lizard
a. sticky tongue b. movable jaws c. paws d. teeth
9. mosquito
a. sucking tubes b. sticky tongue c. teeth d. beaks
10. horse
a. claws b. paws c. teeth d. beak
Directions: Copy the table below. Write their habitat as to land or water
and their protective structure
Generalizations

• Do you think their

body structures affect
the way they live?
Why?
Directions: Copy the table below in your notebook. Identify the different
animals found in your community. Count and record them using the table.
DAY 3
Direction:
Complete the table
below.
How can these animals survive in their environment?
Activity : “Animals
Habitat”

• Directions: Group the following

animals according to their habitat.
Copy the table in your notebook
and write them in their proper
column.
➢ Mimicry is an adaptation in which
one animal copies another animal in
appearance or behavior. Viceroy
butterfly is a good example because it
mimics the monarch butterfly.

➢ Other animals use mimicry by

imitating the shapes, smell, tastes,
color or even the sounds of other
animals. Examples are zebra, killer
whale, and tiger.

➢ Some animals secrete chemicals to

protect themselves like squid, wasp,
snakes and jellyfish. Octopus release a
cloud of ink to escape.
➢ Other animals have
adaptive behavior that
protect their own kind.
They move in
groups/families/herds/pr
ide/pack. Monkeys,
elephants, penguins,
hyena, and wolves are
examples of this.
➢ Some animals move fast to protect
themselves. Cheetah and ostrich are
examples.
➢ Some animals have protective
coverings such as turtles, crabs,
snails and oyster. When they
sense danger, they keep their
bodies inside their shells.
Activity : “Body
Coverings”
• Directions: How does
each animal below
protect itself? Copy the
table in your notebook
and check the correct
column.
 • 1. _________________ is the structure of behavior
that helps an organism or animal survive in its
Directions: environment.
• 2. Fishes are covered with _________ for protection
Copy and fill from diseases and from other animals that live in
water.
in the • 3. Shrimp and lobsters are covered with outside
missing word skeleton or exoskeleton while other animals like
clams and mussels are covered with
to complete _____________.

each • 4. Body coverings of animals are mostly for

______________.
statement. • 5. Animals have body parts like legs for walking for
those animals that live on land and ___________ for
animals that fly in the air.
Generalizatio
ns
• Why do you think
different animals
eat different kinds
of food?
Directions: Read each question carefully. Write the
letter of the correct answer in your notebook.

1. The structure or behavior that helps an organism survive in its environment

is called ______.
a. adaptation c. communication
b. camouflage d. mimicry
2. Which of the following group of animals move in the same way?
a. dog, fish, frog c. monkey, rabbit, horse
b. snakes, turtle, duck d. bird, butterfly, mosquito
3. Animals used their legs to move from place to place. How do cows, carabaos, horses and
goats use their hooves?
a. to keep them warm b. help them move in water
c. for chewing grass and leaves d. help them walk even on hard rocks

4. An animal has big hind legs. Which of the following movement can it do?
a. flying b. hopping c. running d. walking

5. Mang Tino lives in a mountainous area. He is planning to put up a business. Which of the
following may he do?
a. piggery b. poultry c. fishery d. cattle raising
DAY 4
Direction: Complete the word by filling
in the missing letter in each blank.

1. C___ M___ ____ ____ L ____ G E is a

protective coloration this adaptation
allows some animals to blend with their
surroundings.
2. Snake emits V __ N ____ M to protect
themselves from their enemies.
Directions: Look at the
pictures of animals below.
Identify each of them and
write how they protect
themselves from their
enemies. Write your
answer on the space
provided for.
• 1. What adaptive structures of animals helped them to live
on land and on water?
• 2. Do you think their body structures affect the way they live?
Why?
• 3. Why do you think different animals eat different kinds of
food?
• 4. How do you think animals protect themselves from
enemies?
• 5. If you are going to choose, what kind of animals are you
going to raise in your community? Why?
➢ Habitat is an ecological or environmental area where particular species of animal, plant,
or other type of organism live.

➢ Animals move differently depending on their habitat and body structure. Animals that
live on land move in different ways. Some walks, hops and jumps. Others flies and crawls.

➢ Most animals that live in water swim. But some aquatic animals have legs for walking.
Examples are crustaceans like shrimp, prawn and crab.

➢ Animals that can live both in water and land can either walk, hop, jump, or swim.
➢ Population refers to the total
number of animals in a
particular habitat or
community.

➢ Some of the habitats of animals are

pond, grassland, and sea. The body
structures of animals for adaptation play
an important role in choosing animals to
raise in a particular habitat.
 • Directions: Copy the table below. Write their habitat as
to land or water and their protective structures.

Activity :
“Habitat
and
Structure”
Activity: “Animals’
Movement”

• Directions: How does the

following animals move in their
habitat? Write walk, hop, jump,
fly, crawl or swim. Do your
answers in your notebook.
Generalizatio
ns
• How do you think animals
protect themselves from
enemies?
• If you are going to choose,
what kind of animals are
you going to raise in your
community? Why?
 • 1. Land or terrestrial animals or animals that live on
land have _________ for breathing.
Directions: • 2. Animals with _____________ teeth like dog, lion
and tiger eat meat and some animals eat both
Copy and fill plants and meat.
in the • 3. _____________ is a protective coloration in
animals. This adaptation allows some animals to
missing word blend with their surroundings.

to complete • 4. Other animals imitate the shape, smell, taste,

color and even sound of other animals. This
each behavior is called ______________.
• 5. _____________ is an ecological or environmental
statement. area that is inhabited by a particular species of
animals, plants or organism. It is where animals and
plants live.