Competition and Adaptation-Science Studies Weekly-Week 4

Question 1

What are physical adaptation?

Answer 1

The way animals’ bodies look and work.

Question 2

What are behavioral adaptations?

Answer 2

The way animals act or behave.

Question 3

What do plants and animals have on Earth that helps them survive in their habitats?

Answer 3

Special Characteristics.

Question 4

What is camouflage?

Answer 4

Colors that blend with animals environment.

Question 5

What does “migrate” mean?

Answer 5

Moving with the seasons.

Question 6

What are Ornithologists?

Answer 6

Scientists who study birds.

Question 7

What does a tail shape help with?

Answer 7

Tail shape is what gives a bird balance, helps them soar in the air, and helps them make quick turns or dips while hunting.

Question 8

What is one way to study birds?

Answer 8

One way is to observe, research, and compare different birds wings, beaks, legs, tails and feet. This will help us understand how birds have developed special features that allow their species to survive in earth.

Question 9

How are the bones of a bird wing?

Answer 9

Hollow, just like the bones in the bodies of birds that fly.

Question 10

What moves birds wings?

Answer 10

Powerful muscles.

Question 11

What do you call a person interested in nature?

Answer 11

Naturalist.

Question 12

What did Darwin studied?

Answer 12

He studied all of the Galapagos animals.

Question 13

What was Darwin’s idea called?

Answer 13

Natural Selection.

Question 14

What is Natural Selection?

Answer 14

The idea that animals need to change to survive, and that the animals that were not born with the changes did not survive.

Question 15

Why did Darwin believe animals should change?

Answer 15

He believed they had to change because they lived so far away from other animals of their species, that they had to change to be able to survive in their island habitat.

Question 16

How to birds know how to get back home after flying south?

Answer 16

Many birds are somehow aware of the north and south magnetic fields of the Earth. So, even at night, when they can’t see land, they know where to go.

Question 17

How are other ways to know their way home?

Answer 17

Many animals also remember the way places smell, and follow their noses home. During the day, some birds watch the position of the sun and at night they use the position of the stars.

Question 18

What happens when birds are released inside a Planetarium?

Answer 18

birds will change their positions. If the stars are rotated, the birds will rotate. Amazingly, the birds seem to watch for the North Star, just like human sailors do.

Question 19

What is a Planetarium?

Answer 19

A building that has stars projected on the ceiling like in the sky.