Adaptation

Question 1

What are adaptations

Answer 1

 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 behavioural

Question 2

What are Behavioural Adaptations

Answer 2

Ways an organism act to help them survive in their environment. For example, migration, hibernation, warning calls, mating dances, hunting in packs

Question 3

What are Structural Adaptations

Answer 3

 Actual body parts or coloration that help an organism survive in their environment. For example, camouflage, mimicry, bent hind legs, sharp teeth and claws, body structures

Question 4

Behavioural Animal Adaptations

Answer 4

Migration 
Hibernation
Living in groups 
Tool use
Playing dead 
Calling 
Threatening gestures

Question 5

Structural Animal Adaptations

Answer 5

Camouflage/ Colouration 
Mimicry 
Bent hind legs
Eye location 
Teeth sharpness

Question 6

Define Physiological Adaptation

Answer 6

 Internal systematic responses to external stimuli in order to help an organism maintain homeostasis

Question 7

Behavioural Plant Adaptations

Answer 7

Tropism
Dormancy
Gravitropism
Phototropism

Question 8

What is tropism

Answer 8

movement of a plant toward or away from a stimulus. Toward is called positive, away is called negative

Question 9

Define Dormancy

Answer 9

Many plants go dormant in the winter. Fall is the time of year when plants are preparing for dormancy

Question 10

Define Phototropism

Answer 10

When the plant senses light and the shoots (stems & leaves) grow toward the light source. This is a positive tropism because the plant is growing toward the stimulus

Question 11

Define Gravitropism

Answer 11

When growth of a plant changes in response to direction of gravity