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Traits & Adaptations

5th Grade

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 5.10.a

compare the structures and functions of different species that help them live and survive in a specific environment such as hooves on prairie animals or webbed feet in aquatic animals; and

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): 5.10.b

differentiate between inherited traits of plants and animals such as spines on a cactus or shape of a beak and learned behaviors such as an animal learning tricks or a child riding a bicycle.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): SCIENCE.5.5.g

explain how factors or conditions impact stability and change in objects, organisms, and systems.

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): SCIENCE.5.13.a

analyze the structures and functions of different species to identify how organisms survive in the same environment; and

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS): SCIENCE.5.13.b

explain how instinctual behavioral traits such as turtle hatchlings returning to the sea and learned behavioral traits such as orcas hunting in packs increase chances of survival.



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