Topic 7 - Adaptions

Question 1

What are the three types of adaption?

Answer 1

Structural, behavioural, functional

Question 2

What are structural adaptions?

Answer 2

Features of an organism’s body structure such as shape or colour

Question 3

Give an example of a structural adaption?

Answer 3

Animals that live in cold places have a thick layer of blubber and low SA:V ratio

White fur for arctic predatorsrey

Question 4

What are behavioural adaptions?

Answer 4

The ways that organisms behave. E.g. migration of birds

Question 5

What are functional adaptions?

Answer 5

Things that go on inside an organism’s body that can be related to processes like reproduction and metabolism. E.g. desert animals conserve water by producing little sweat and small amounts of concentrated urine

Question 6

Microorganisms have a ___ of adaptions so they can survive in a ___ of environments

Answer 6

Wide range

E.g. extremophiles adapted to live in very extreme conditions such as high temperatures of high salt concentrations