B4.1

Question 1

Define habitat.

Question 2

List characteristics that can be used to describe a habitat.​

Question 3

Define adaptation.

Question 4

Explain how natural selection can lead to adaptations of organisms to the abiotic environment of their habitat.

Question 5

Outline the physiological, morphological and/or behavioral adaptations of Marram grass to live in sand dune environments.

Question 6

Outline the physiological, morphological and/or behavioral adaptations of a mangrove tree that lives in a coastal intertidal zone.​

Question 7

List abiotic variables that affect plant species distribution.

Question 8

Outline an example of an abiotic variable that affects an animal species distribution.​

Question 9

Define “range of tolerance.”

Question 10

Discuss the relationship between adaptations, a species distribution and its range of tolerance for an abiotic factor.

Question 11

Describe methods for ethically determining the range of tolerance of a species. ​​

Question 12

Sketch a graph to illustrate the range of tolerance of an organism to an abiotic variable.

Question 13

List abiotic conditions required for the formation of coral reefs.

Question 14

Discuss the relationship between the distribution of coral reefs and the coral’s range of tolerance to abiotic variables. ​

Question 15

Define biome.

Question 16

State the two abiotic factors that are the principal determinants of biome distribution.

Question 17

Interpret a graph depicting the relationship between temperature, rainfall and most likely biome.

Question 18

Outline climate conditions that characterize the tropical forest, temperate forest, taiga, grassland, tundra and hot desert biomes.

Question 19

Describe how the process of convergent evolution will lead to development of similar adaptations in a biome even if they are widely separated.

Question 20

Describe an example of convergent evolution in two widely separated ecosystems of the same biome.

Question 21

Outline the physiological, morphological and/or behavioral adaptations of an animal living in a hot desert.

Question 22

Outline the physiological, morphological and/or behavioral adaptations of a plant living in a hot desert.

Question 23

Outline the physiological, morphological and/or behavioral adaptations of an animal living in a tropical rainforest.

Question 24

Outline the physiological, morphological and/or behavioral adaptations of a plant living in a tropical rainforest.