Adaptation Of Living Organisms In Its Environment
Jun 20, 2015
Adaptation Of Living Organisms In Its Environment
HYACINTH B L BENSI
PREPARED BY
Inherited Characteristics
Why do tigers have stripes?Why are bullfrogs green on the back and white on the belly?Why do giraffes have such a long neck?Why do geese fly south for the winter?Why do waterlilies float?Why do some plants bear fruit?All of these questions deal
with adaptations!!!
What are adaptations?
Adaptations – an inherited characteristic that helps an organism to survive long enough to reproduce more successfully in its changing environment and can either be structural or behavioral.
ANIMAL ADAPTATIONS
Types of Adaptation
Anything that helps an organism survive in its environment is an adaptation.
It also refers to the ability of living things to adjust to different conditions within their environments. Structural adaptation Protective coloration Mimicry Behaviour adaptations Migration Hibernation
Structural adaptationsA structural adaptation involves some part of
an animal's body. Actual body parts or coloration that help an organism survive in their environment.
EX: camouflage, mimicry, bent hind legs, sharp teeth and claws, body structures.
A structural adaptation involves some part of an animal's body, such as the size or shape of the teeth, the animal's body covering, or the way the animal moves.
MimicryColoration
Protective Resemblance
Behavioral AdaptationsWays an organism act to help them survive
in their environment. Behaviour adaptations include activities that help an animal survive. Behaviour adaptations can be learned or instinctive. It includes
Social behaviour Behaviour for protection
EX: Migration, hibernation, warning calls, mating dances, hunting in packs.
Migration
Hibernation
Playing Dead
PLANT ADAPTATIONS
Structural Plant Adaptations1. Structures - adaptations on the body:
2. Seeds – all seeds have adaptation to better enable it to survive long enoughto plant itself and grow.
holdfasts, empty space for water storage, catch animals for minerals, tallness, heartiness, thorns, flexibility, floatation devices
Plant Adaptations
Protection – thorns, bad taste, poison, coloration, spikes
Obtaining Food – All plants do photosynthesis and make glucose in their leaves. The larger the leaves the more Sun they can capture.
Plant Adaptations
All living things adapt is a characteristic of life. All 6 kingdoms adapt. Animals are not the only organisms to adapt. Plants also adapt in various ways to survive.
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