bk2 ch 6.2

Question 1

An organism can live only in an environment that it
is suited for: it must have behavioural and physical
characteristics that will allow it to survive. These characteristics are called a_____

Answer 1

adaptations

Question 2

What are physical adaptations?

Answer 2

An physical attribute attained by evolution. the organism was born with these adaptations and has no control over them.

Question 3

What are behavioural adaptations?

Answer 3

A habit which either the animal was born with or learned.

Question 4

An organism can live only in an environment that it
is suited for: it must have behavioural and physical
characteristics that will allow it to survive. These characteristics are called a_____

Answer 4

adaptations

Question 5

What are physical adaptations?

Answer 5

An physical attribute attained by evolution. the organism was born with these adaptations and has no control over them.

Question 6

What are behavioural adaptations?

Answer 6

A habit which either the animal was born with or learned.

Question 7

Non-living or abiotic factors influence where an organism can live. They include:

Answer 7

temperature, humidity, amount of light energy available, acidity of the soil and water, salinity of the water surrounding, or available to the organism, mineral salts and trace elements available, wave and water currents, shelter, wind and air currents

Question 8

The living or biotic factors that influence where an

organism can live include…

Answer 8

all of the other plants and

animals that it comes into contact with directly, or is influenced by indirectly.

Question 9

Examples of biotic factors that influence where an

organism can live are:

Answer 9

competition, dispersal, predation, human intervention