Adaptations And The Environment

Question 1

Adaptations

Answer 1

Organisms, including microorganisms, have characteristics(features) which increase an organism’s chance of survival in the environment in which it lives.

Question 2

Deseret animals adaptations

Answer 2

• Large surface are of body compared to volume. This helps them to lose more body heat
• they lose less water by producing small amounts of concentrated urine
• they make very little sweat
• they have sandy color camouflage, which helps them avoid predators

Question 3

Arctic animals adaptations

Answer 3

• small surface area compared to volume, this prevent lose of heat
• thick layer of body fat for insulation, also source of energy
• white fur for good camuflage

Question 4

Desert plants adaptations

Answer 4

• water storage tissues
• shallow but extensive roots to absorb water quickly over a large surface area
• deep roots to the storage of underground water

Question 5

Food chain

Answer 5

Shows what eats what. Always starts with producer.

Question 6

Tropic level in good chain

Answer 6

Each stage of food chain is called tropic level. There’s less energy and less biomass, every time you move up a tropic level.

Question 7

Pyramid of biomass

Answer 7

Information about biomass can be used to construct a pyramid of biomass to represent food chain.

Question 8

Energy loss in food chains

Answer 8

• respiration - every organism in food chain respires. It supplies energy for all life processes. Most of the energy as a heat is lost to its surroundings.
• uneaten material-some of the material which makes up animals is not eaten and is decayed
• waste products-energy is lost by waste material from animals

Question 9

What organisms require?

Answer 9

To survive and reproduce, organisms require a supply of materials from their surroundings and from other living organisms there.

Question 10

Plant competition

Answer 10

Often compete with each other for light, space, water and the nutrients from the soil.

Question 11

Animals competition

Answer 11

Often compete with each other for food, mates and territory.

Question 12

Extremophiles organisms

Answer 12

Live in environments that are very extreme, containing a high level of salt, high temperature or high pressures. A lot of them are microorganisms.

Question 13

Heterotropic feeding

Answer 13

Animals cannot make their own food. They have to eat plants or other animals.

Question 14

Herbivores

Answer 14

Have teeth adapted for grinding up plant cells.

Question 15

Carnivores

Answer 15

Have teeth adapted for tearing flesh or crushing bones.

Question 16

Types of adaptations

Answer 16

• structural adaptations (ways in which organisms are shaped, coloured)
• behavioural adaptations(migration, huddling together)
• functional adaptations (related to process such as reproduction and metabolism)