Habitats
How many conditions do habitats need?
5
Define animal adaptations.
When animals have adapted their physical characteristics or behaviours to give them an advantage when it comes to survival
What is camouflage?
Camouflage is a type of adaptation to help animals survive. Camouflage is where an animal has a certain colour or pattern on their fur or skin that helps them to blend into their environment.
What is biomimicry?
Stealing ideas from nature.
What is a desert habitat?
Extreme, dry heat, little rainfall, little to no plants or animals
Name the two types of habitats.
Terrestrial and Aquatic
Why do birds have different shaped beaks?
Birds have different shaped beaks to serve different purposes based on what they eat, what they hunt for and the habitat they live in.
Name one type of camouflage.
1. Concealing colouration
2. Disruptive colouration
3. Mimicry
What is an example of biomimicry?
1. Gecko feet to create strong tape to attach to walls
2. Shark skin in hospitals to stop the spread of disease
3. Birds to help reduce train sounds in tunnels
4. Humpback whales to make turbines
5. Using plants to help invent velcro
Name a plant that lives in the desert.
1. Cactus
2. Sturt's Desert Pea
3. Spinifex
4. Succulent
Which habitat has the most amount of sunlight?
Desert
What is a small beak used for?
For eating small insects and seeds
What animals use concealing colouration?
Polar bears.
The animal is the same colour as its surroundings so that it can hide within its environment.
Name one example of how First Nations people use biomimicry.
1. Designing weapons from the barb found in a stingray tail to prevent the spear from dislodging when hunting large fish.
2. Developing knives from the teeth of sharks that are particularly proficient at cutting meat (used for hunting or food preparation)
3. Using the hooks of the lawyer cane plant to catch freshwater prawns (i.e. fishing) and extract witchety grubs from the bores of trees
4. Making clothing out of possum fur (both warm and waterproof) and using echidna quills as pins to hold items of clothing together
What is the name of the tree that has a bottle-shaped trunk that it uses to store water?
Boab tree
Name an Aquatic habitat.
Ocean
What are strong beaks used for?
For things with shells or seeds
If a bug looks like a spiky thorn on a tree to protect itself from predators, what type of camouflage is this?
Mimicry
How are sharks used for biomimicry?
1. Developing knives from the teeth of sharks that are particularly proficient at cutting meat (used for hunting or food preparation)
2. Shark skin in hospitals to stop the spread of disease
What is the feature of a succulent?
These are plants that keep water in their fleshy stems or leaves
Describe the temperature of a rainforest habitat.
Hot and rainy.
What are large beaks used for?
Eating larger animals
Explain how a predator can use camouflage.
It can blend into the environment to hide from its prey so it can sneak up on them easily.
What do First Nations people use Echidna quills for?
Echidna quills are used as pins to hold items of clothing together
Where do you find a Sturt’s Desert Pea?
Mainly South Australia.
It is found in central and northwestern Australian deserts where it grows slowly along the ground.
Not Victoria.