Adaptations
A frog has long back legs in order to help it jump higher. What kind of adaptation is this?
What is structural?
There are too many fish in one pond, so the amount of underwater plants is very low. The fish start competing. What is the limiting factor in this scenario?
What is food?
A bear population in Alaska must eat 5 fish per day. The central pond can only provide 100 fish per day. What is the carrying capacity of bear that can live in this area?
What is 20?
Birds migrating. What type of adaptation is this?
What is behavioral?
One area has a large shortage of plants, so there is almost no oxygen being produced in the ecosystem. Animals begin to die and migrate to different areas. What is the limiting factor in this scenario?
What is oxygen?
One bird feeder can hold up to 10 pounds of bird seed. The bird species in Kentucky must eat 0.5 pounds of bird seed per day in order to survive. What is the carrying capacity of birds that can visit the bird feeder per day?
What is 20?
Skunks' bodies producing a potent gas substance. What type of adaptation is this?
What is physiological?
The pond in my backyard has almost no algae for the fish to eat. Recently, I added a few new species of fish to the pond and I think there are too many now. My fish are beginning to die. The limiting factor is food. What type of limiting factor is this?
What is dependent?
If a species of animals that live in an area begin to compete and kill each other for food, what has most likely happened?
What is the carrying capacity has been reached?
How many types of adaptations are there? (That we've learned in class)
What is 3?
The taiga biome is losing it's animal population due to a forest fire that destroyed almost all the plants. The limiting factor is food. What type of limiting factor is this?
What happens if the carrying capacity of an ecosystem is exceeded?
What is competition and animals dying?
What are the three types of animal adaptations?
What are behavioral, structural, and physiological?
What are the two types of limiting factors?
What are independent and dependent?
What is carrying capacity?
What is the largest population that one area can support?