Blending In
This word is when an organism blends in with their environment.
What is camouflage?
The feathers of an Eastern Screech Owl is an example of this adaptation
What is structural?
This process occurs when organisms with better-suited characteristics survive and reproduce
What is natural selection?
A lady bug is an example of this type of organism
What is an insect?
Feeling happy is an example of a trait - true or false?
What is false?
This word is when an organism copies another organism's appearance, behavior, or sound in order to survive.
What is mimicry?
The thorns on a thorny devil are an example of this type of adaptation.
What is structural?
Darwin's finches are a bunch of different species that all have different shapes of this body feature.
What are beaks?
Organisms have these - specific characteristics that are passed down through their DNA
What are traits?
These organisms were dying off from a parasite that only killed the male organisms
What are blue-moon butterflies?
This type of organism has a light coloured bottom and a dark coloured top which helps it blend into the ocean
What is a shark?
The proteins in an Antarctic Icefish are an example of this type of adaptation
What is physiological?
In our candy bowl example, this group of organisms acted as the predators
What is us (humans/students)?
Morphology is the study of this
What is the study of the structure of organisms?
This human event triggered peppered-moths to evolve
What is the industrial revolution?
This ocean organ mimics a lionfish, flatfish, and sea snake in order to survive.
What is a mimic octopus?
The blood vessels in an African Elephants ears are an example of this type of adaptation.
What is physiological.
What is a thorax?
This process is when a group of species change over multiple generations
What is evolution?
This Australian bird copies sounds of other things it hears
What is a lyrebird?
Migration of birds year after year is an example of this type of adaptation
What is behavioral?
Bed bugs have survived and grown because they were able to pass down this trait
What is resistance to pesticides/chemicals?
One of the species we observed on our morphology tour have a huge variety of traits. So much variety that they look like different species even though they are all part of the same species!
What are dogs?
We read an article where chickens were suffering from this disease.
What is Newcastle disease?