Weather, Climate and Adaptations of Animals to Climate

Question

Can anyone please tell me the answers of these questions?

E. Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS)
1. Identify the animals from their adaptations given below:
(a) Found in tropical rainforest and have long prehensile tails.
(b) Their skin colour blends with the surroundings and have sharp eyesight and hearing power.
(c) They store food in their humps and have plate-like broad feet.
(d) They have a streamlined body and a layer of blubber.
(e) They have strong sense of smell and long ears.
2. Explain, with examples, why we find animals of certain kind living in particular climatic conditions.

Answer 1

1. (a) Monkey

(b) Lion or Tiger

(c) Camel

(d) Penguin

(e) Elephant

2. Adaptation is the physical or behavioral characteristic of an organism that helps an organism to survive better in the surrounding environment.

• We find animals of certain kind living in particular climatic conditions because every living organism is adapted to live in a particular habitat.
• Every living thing develops their feature according to the area they live in.

Examples:

• Penguins have thick skin to protect themselves from cold and webbed feet to swim in the water. It will not be able to survive in the hot climate of tropical regions as they developed a thick skin for protection from cold not from the hot and humid temperature.
• Polar bears have white fur so that they are not easily visible in the snowy white background. It protects them from their predators. It also helps them in catching their prey. To protect them from extreme cold, they have two thick layers of fur. They also have a layer of fat under their skin.

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