Animals and Their Needs An Animal s How-To Guide To

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Animals and Their Needs

• An Animals How-To Guide To Surviving in a Habitat

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What Needs Do You Think Animals Have?
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What Needs do Animals Have?

• Animals Need Oxygen
• Animals Need Water
• Animals Need Food
• Animals Need Shelter
• Where do Animals Meet Their Needs?

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Animals Need Oxygen

• Land animals will get their oxygen from the air.
  
• Most water animals will get their oxygen from the
  water. Water contains oxygen.
• Whales and dolphins are examples of water animals
  that must come up for air.

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Animals Need Water

• All animals (and humans) bodies are made up of
  water.
• An animals body will lose water throughout the
  day and it must replenish itself.
• Water can come from food, puddles, lakes, rain,
  etc. Some animals use the water already stored in
  their bodies.

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Animals Need Food

• Animals need food to grow, to live, and to have
  energy.
• Animals cannot make their own food. They get
  their food by eating plants and other animals.
  This is called a consumer.
• Animals use special physical adaptations for
  getting their food. (Elephant- trunk, Chameleon-
  long tongue)

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Animals Need Shelter

• Protects them from the weather and other animals.
  It also gives the animal a place to rest.
• Where does a bird find shelter?
• Where does a snake find shelter?