Adaptations

Question 1

What is an adaptation?

Answer 1

When a species becomes better suited to its environment.

Question 2

Explain why organisms adapt

Answer 2

To be able to survive

Question 3

What is the difference between physical adaptation and behavioral adaptation?

Answer 3

Physical adaptations are body structures that help the animal get food, defend themselves, and reproduce more of that species and allows an organism to survive in its environment. Humans cant control that they have ears. Behavioral adaptations allow organisms to respond to life needs. Humans learn to go to the toilet.

Question 4

What is natural selection? Explain how the peppered moth is an example of natural selection.

Answer 4

Natural selection is when organisms adapt to their environment and the ones who don’t die off, only to leave the adapted organisms. If a Peppered Moth adapted by getting better camouflage the ones who adapt will reproduce and the ones who don’t will get eaten and die off.

Question 5

A skunk spraying a predator is an example of

Answer 5

Chemical defense__

Question 6

What is mimicry? Give an example.

Answer 6

Mimicry is when an organism looks or sounds like another living organism. A Monarch butterfly is poisonous and other organisms wont eat it, the Viceroy butterfly looks like the poisonous Monarch butterfly so other organisms don’t eat the Viceroy even though it is not poisonous.

Question 7

How is chemical defense an adaptation?

Answer 7

A chemical defense is to help organisms defend themselves against predators, the ones without chemical defense will start to die off.

Question 8

What is the difference between instinctive behavior and learned behavior? Give examples.

Answer 8

Instinctive behavior does not need to be learned and happens naturally. We don’t learn to breathe, it’s natural. Learned Behavior is taught and does not happen naturally. We have to learn how to talk.

Question 9

Caelyn wanted to find out what shampoo made her hair the shiniest. Everyday she washed her hair with different shampoos and then rated how shiny her hair was, on a scale from 1-10. She used Pantene, Herbal Essences, L’Oreal, and just water.

Answer 9

Independent Variable (IV): _The different shampoos _____________________________________________
Dependent Variable (DV): __how shiny her hair is on a scale of 1-10____________________________________________
Control Group: _Just water