Primary 2 - Connect Plus
Unit 2: Working Together & Community Life
Amazing Animal Adaptations: Fur, Fins, and Wings 🦅🐟
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Every animal has special features called 'adaptations' that help it live successfully in its habitat. Fish have shiny scales and fins to swim gracefully in water, as well as gills to breathe underwater. Birds have lightweight feathers, strong wings to fly high in the sky, and beaks shaped to eat seeds, fish, or insects. Camels have wide, flat feet so they do not sink into the soft desert sand, and long eyelashes to protect their eyes from dust storms! Let us discover how wonderful nature is!
🐟 Water Animals: Fish
- 🏊 Fins: Help fish balance and steer in water.
- 🌊 Gills: Take oxygen from water for breathing.
- 🛡️ Scales: Smooth covering that protects fish bodies.
🦅 Land & Sky Animals
- 🪶 Birds: Wings to fly, feathers to stay warm, and beaks to eat.
- 🐪 Camels: Humps to store fat, wide hooves to walk on sand, and thick lips to eat prickly thorns.
🧩 Body Parts and Functions
| Animal Part | Which Animal? | What does it do? |
|---|---|---|
| Gills | Fish | Breathe dissolved oxygen in water |
| Wide hooves | Camel | Prevent sinking into soft sand |
| Feathers & Wings | Eagle | Fly and stay warm in cold air |
| Large ears | Fennec Fox | Cool down and hear insects moving |
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adaptation
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تكيف حيوي مع البيئة
📖 Def: a body feature or behavior that helps an animal survive
fins
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زعانف الأسماك
📖 Def: flattened appendages on various parts of the body of aquatic animals
gills
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خياشيم للتنفس في الماء
📖 Def: the paired respiratory organ of fishes and some amphibians
wings
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أجنحة الطيران
📖 Def: modified forelimbs for flying in birds
feathers
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ريش الطيور
📖 Def: the flat appendages growing from a bird's skin
beak
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منقار الطائر
📖 Def: a bird's horny projecting jaws
hump
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سنام الجمل لتخزين الدهون
📖 Def: a rounded fleshy mass on the back of a camel for fat storage
scales
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قشور الأسماك والزواحف
📖 Def: small, thin horny plates protecting the skin of fish
hoof
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خف / حافر الحيوان
📖 Def: the horny part of the foot of an ungulate mammal
breathe
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يتنفس الأكسجين
📖 Def: to take air into the lungs and expel it
predator
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حيوان مفترس
📖 Def: an animal that naturally preys on others
prey
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فريسة
📖 Def: an animal that is hunted and killed by another for food
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