Adaptations

Question 1

What do plants often do

Answer 1

Compete with each other for light and space and for water and nutrients from the soil

Question 2

What do animals often compete with eachother for

Answer 2

Food, mates and territory

Question 3

What do adaptions do

Answer 3

Enable organisms to survive in the conditions which they normally live

Question 4

Extremophiles might be what

Answer 4

Tolerant to high levels of salt, high temps and high pressure

Question 5

Animals may be adapted to survive in dry and Arctic environments by what

Answer 5

Changes to surface area
Thickness of insulating coat
Amount of body fat
Camouflage

Question 6

Plants may be adapted to survive in dry environments by what

Answer 6

Changes to surface area (leaves)
Water storage tissues
Extensive root systems

Question 7

What else may animals and plants be adapted with to cope with specific features of their environment

Answer 7

Thorns
Poisons
Warning colours to deter predators

Question 8

To survive and reproduce what do organisms require

Answer 8

A supply of materials from their surroundings and from other living organisms there