Describe How Adaptations Influence An Organism's Survival

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The goal of this lesson was to describe how beneficial variations called adaptations influence an organism’s survival. I learned that animals adapt to survive an specific environment. I know this because, we did an activity where we had a spoon, a binder clip, tweezers, and a scissor to represent a bird’s peak and to see how each of these materials help to pick up paper clips, rubber bands, toothpicks, and macaronis which represented food.
Each material was good at picking up food. For example, the spoon was good at picking up the macaronis, the tweezers was good at picking up the rubber bands, and the scissors were good at picking up the paper clips. In part 1, the food was in on place and birds didn't have to do anything to get it. Then

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