EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -Adaptation can protect animals from predators or from harsh weather. Many birds can hide in the tall grass and weeds and insects can change their colour to blend into the surroundings. This makes it difficult for predators to seek them out for food.

Detailed explanation-2: -Adaptations are inheritable characteristics that increase an organism’s ability to survive and reproduce in an environment. Adaptations can help an organism find food and water, protect itself, or manage in extreme environments.

Detailed explanation-3: -Adaptation is important for the survival of living organisms. The ability of the organisms to adapt to different situations and surroundings helps the world to move ahead.

Detailed explanation-4: -Examples of behavioral adaptations include migration, hibernation, gathering and storing food, defense behaviors, and rearing young. Instinctive behavior is an unlearned, inborn tendency to behave in a way characteristic of a species, i.e. migration.

Detailed explanation-5: -Sexual reproduction is important for the survival of the species and a changing environment because sexual reproduction produces genetically distinct and different individuals. Asexual reproduction requires less energy than sexual reproduction and asexual reproduction only requires a single individual.