HABITAT DEVELOPMENT FOR WILDLIFE PRODUCTION

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HABITAT DEVELOPMENT FOR WILDLIFE PRODUCTION

• Original Power Point Created by Julie Harlin
• Modified by Georgia Agricultural Education
  Curriculum Office
• June 2002

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OBJECTIVES

• Recognize the adaptation of life forms through
  natural selection
• Distinguish similarities between the wildlife
  biomes created in each group
• Design a habitat for a wildlife species
  using the resources provided

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What do sharks, whales, snakes, bears, dogs,
cats, bees, elephants and apes have in common?
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TEXAS WILDLIFE

• Texas provides habitat for 1,200 species of
  vertebrae wildlife including fish
• WHIP Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program

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TEXAS WILDLIFE

• 9 of these species are game
• Targeted Species
• - white-tail mule deer
• - mule deer
• - big horn sheep

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TEXAS WILDLIFE

• 600 species of birds
• 7 are game
• 4 are targeted
• Ring-necked - Bobwhite Quail pheasant
• - Lesser prairie - Wild Turkey
  chicken

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ECOSYSTEM

• Community of plants, animals, and microbes
  interacting with each other and the environment
• Describes both the living and the
• non-living components of an area that interact
  with one another

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ECOSYSTEM

• Can be aquatic or terrestrial
• Biomes
• A biome is a large geographic area
  that has a specific climate. Within this
  biome exist organisms with characteristic
  adaptations suited to best survive there.

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ECOSYSTEMS

• Adaptations
• An adaptation is a variation of
  structure, physiology or behavior that aids the
  organisms survival in its particular
  environment. Below are examples of some of the
  many adaptations.

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REFERENCES
www.tpwd.state.tx.us www.discovery.com