Science Notes Answer Key - Adaptations for Survival

1. structures / behaviours
body parts
light, warm, float
behaves
heat, hot

2. Physical
food, water, air
predators
reproduce

3. Coping with physical factors

Temperature

Body coverings to keep the animals warm in very cold environment

body, fur, air, insulator, cold

Other adaptations to survive in a very cold environment

hibernate, drops / decreases, fat, warm, clumps, black

Other adaptations to survive in a very hot environment

The camel:
Sun, heat, water, sweats, urinates, energy

Gecko:
Hides

Desert foxes:
ears, heat

Cactus:
leaves, water, stem, waxy, water

Adaptations for flight

fly, wings, muscles, feathers, warm, skin, hollow, weight

Coping with physical factors

Light:
Owl, large, clasping, tendrils, horizontally, leaves and stem, leaves, air

Water:

Moving in water:

narrow, broad, quickly

Modified limbs:

swimming, balance, forward, swimming, swimming

Swim bladders:

balloon, buoyant

Breathing in water

Gills:
carbon dioxide

Gill chambers:
air

Skin:
thin, soft, wet, oxygen

Air tube:
oxygen

Air bubble:
adapted

Special nostrils:
breathe

Blowholes:
underwater

4. Obtaining food

Getting food:
stripes, claws, prey

Eating:
teeth, nectar, curved


5. Adaptations for escaping predators

Body coverings:
rough

Camouflage:
colours, surroundings, eyespots

Warning colours:
poisonous

Appearing to look like other organisms:
adapted

Moving quickly away from danger:
predators

Living in groups:
survival

6. Adaptations for reproduction

Attracting a mate: attract, glow, light

Finding a mate:
male

Attractive flowers and fruits:
colourful, nectar, pollen grains

Seed dispersal – Methods of seed/fruit dispersal

Animals
Water
Wind
Splitting