Sentences with phrase «animal adapts to its environment»

Not only can you see how their structure changes, but you can at the same time see how they react to specific stimuli and perhaps how their reaction changes over weeks when the animal adapts to its environment.

Not exact matches

«Observation: It is observed that animals have the ability to adapt somewhat to their environment.

All the theory of evolution says is that life forms adapt to changes in the environment over time; that there are global changes in the gene pool of a given population of animals over time.

It is a process which explains how plant and animal populations genetically adapt to ever - changing environments.

Animals have to constantly adapt to a changing environment and thus «conscious mental imagery, explicit anticipation of likely outcomes and simple thoughts about them are likely to achieve better results than thoughtless reaction» (AT 41).

Whitehead notes that the upward thrust of evolution has produced animals increasingly able to adapt the environment to themselves (FR 4 - 5), and this suggests that «adaptation» concerns not only an occasion's mode of responding to a given world but also its mode of altering the world beyond itself.

Climate change amplifies existing risks to our natural resources by forcing plants and animals to adapt rapidly to a changing environment.

«The animals that live in constant environments haven't had to evolve much capacity, so those animals are probably going to have the greatest challenge adapting to changing conditions.»

For instance, the microbe could be comfortably adapted to some animal host that it routinely inhabits without deadly consequences, but it could be maladapted to the human environment.

Adapted to a lightless environment, the inch - long animal has lost all pigmentation.

All are genes which help animals adapt to new environments, infections and threats.

Over generations, the animals changed and adapted themselves to their respective environments, finding their way into as yet unoccupied ecological niches.

Scientists are increasingly seeing personality as a key factor in an animal's ability to survive, adapt, and thrive in its environment.

«Working through the engine of evolutionary change — natural selection — we can see evidence of animals» and plants» adapting to their environment before our eyes.»

«By understanding how this animal adapts to changes in the environment, we can determine what we really need to be concerned about and what we really should be doing,» says Stephen DeStefano, a conservation biologist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and author of the new book, Coyote at the Kitchen Door: Living with Wildlife in Suburbia (Harvard University Press, 2010).

Gene variants that improve the animal's ability to adapt to that new environment can then be selected for, and passed on to its progeny.

«When I first saw the animal and its striking appearance, I immediately realized that this is a new, hitherto unnamed and highly adapted to cave environment species.

A new analysis of the crustacean's genome supports this unlikely origin and may help explain how the animal has subsequently spread and adapted to so many new environments.

«I am continually amazed at how well adapted these animals are to their environment.»

He said animals that can migrate — like whales and birds — are more likely to adapt, while species bound to a particular environment, or food source, will face greater challenges.

A team of Japanese scientists has discovered a new species of polychaete, a type of marine annelid worm, 9 - meters deep underwater near Japan's Syowa Station in Antarctica, providing a good opportunity to study how animals adapt to extreme environments.

The researchers said the discovery means modern vertebrates originated in a world that was already populated by small and large - bodied physical extremes, in terms of how animals physically adapted to their environment.

All mammals use surfactant while breathing; it's a «way of trying to reduce the number of calories that it costs [to] inhale and exhale,» Fahlman said, adding that animals developed differences in surfactant to adapt to their environments.

Island dwarfism», the tendency for animals to reduce their size as a means of adapting to a severely constricted environment, such as an island, is thought to explain Hobbit's small size

Although these things may seem quite different, they have one thing in common, namely that in both cases the brain enables an animal to adapt its behavior because of challenges in its environment.

Just as all animals will adapt to their environment over many generations to increase the chances of species survival, so too will the individual human body try to prevent possible injury or damage by adapting to any physical activity that is demanding and performed on a regular basis.

Humans have clearly adapted complex systems to deal with extended famine and different environments, but the body of evidence demonstrates that our digestive systems, physiology and physical traits are best designed to eat plants over the long - term, not animals.

Each page includes an image of a particular animal / plant, its name and four ways that it is adapted to its environment.

Year 6 Science Assessments and Tracking Objectives covered: Describe how living things are classified into broad groups according to common observable characteristics and based on similarities and differences, including micro-organisms, plants and animals Give reasons for classifying plants and animals based on specific characteristics Identify and name the main parts of the human circulatory system, and describe the functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood Recognise the impact of diet, exercise, drugs and lifestyle on the way their bodies function Describe the ways in which nutrients and water are transported within animals, including humans Recognise that living things have changed over time and that fossils provide information about living things that inhabited the Earth millions of years ago Recognise that living things produce offspring of the same kind, but normally offspring vary and are not identical to their parents Identify how animals and plants are adapted to suit their environment in different ways and that adaptation may lead to evolution Recognise that light appears to travel in straight lines Use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain that objects are seen because they give out or reflect light into the eye Explain that we see things because light travels from light sources to our eyes or from light sources to objects and then to our eyes Use the idea that light travels in straight lines to explain why shadows have the same shape as the objects that cast them Associate the brightness of a lamp or the volume of a buzzer with the number and voltage of cells used in the circuit Compare and give reasons for variations in how components function, including the brightness of bulbs, the loudness of buzzers and the on / off position of switches Use recognised symbols when representing a simple circuit in a diagram

Ask students to help you make a list of animals and some of the ways in which they adapt to their environment.

Exploding Ants is an expository non-fiction text that explains how animals adapt to survive in their environment.

We all carry our childhood with us throughout our life... some things are buried deeply... some things we take out to remember frequently... Paula was a survivor, a chameleon... she learned to create new personas that fit the changing circumstances of her life by watching her mother react to life... I thought the author did an excellent job of contrasting Paula and Julian in light of their very different childhood experiences... Paula was a closed up prickly cactus... a dessert survivor... all hard, sharp edges that protected the true inner core of her... Julian was an open succulent... soft, sensitive to his nurturing environment... accepting and giving... like plants and animals, human beings adapt to their environment and when are we most open to learning?

Beech and Holly work well for those animals that find it difficult to adapt to new situations, are sensitive to noise, changes in the weather or their environment.

Much like with blind people, animals adapt well to their physical environment and once they are familiar with a room, they seem to navigate very well unless some item is moved.

Project Wildlife, part of the San Diego Humane Society since 2014, also helps animals that have adapted to the city's urban environment, including those referred to its care from government and private organizations throughout the region.

Initially large animal oriented, the practice has adapted to a changing environment and become primarily a companion animal practice.

Cognitive processes such as learning, memory, and problem - solving are critically important for animals to adapt to the environments in which they are kept.

Norwegians are great with kids and other animals and are able to adapt to new environments relatively easily.

Owing to millions of years of isolation many distinctive plants and animal species have adapted to the island's unique environment, including the island scrub - jay and eight plant species found only on Santa Cruz Island and nowhere else in the world.

Owing to millions of years of isolation, many distinctive plant and animals species have adapted to the island's unique environment, including the island scrub - jay and eight plant species found only on Santa Cruz and nowhere else in the world.

These were probably weasel or bear - like animals that spent more and more time in the ocean and eventually adapted to this marine environment.

This october why not head to the wilds of far north queensland to discover the impact of climate change on this world heritage listed ecosystem and see how endemic animals of the area are adapting to a warming environment.

Titicaca is the highest large lake in the world with many animals and plants adapted to the high altitude environment.

Those games force players to have to adapt to their environments, scavenge for food, deal with the harsh weather, staying warm, dealing with storms, fighting off wildlife and predatory animals, and ultimately attempting to reach the end of the game with just one life.

The sculptures and photographs by Elaine Bradford and the works on paper by Megan Greene take Darwin's theory of phenotype (or the visible characteristics of an animal that result from the combined effects of the genes and the environment) even further by incorporating human fashion and adornment as a means for a species to adapt to its surroundings.

His rival, Georges Cuvier, saw the animal kingdom as four diverging branches, reflecting different body plans that had functionally adapted to different environments.

This sculpture, like so many other works by Dion, investigates what happens to animals as they adapt to and thrive in our newly developed urban ecosystems, and when human environments intersect with nature.

(Copenhagen, Denmark) At a time of accelerating transformations in global ecosystems, animals are forced to migrate and adapt themselves to a new environment, where nature, culture and technology are entangled.

This body of work explores the complex relationship that exists between man and animal sharing terrain, the hunter and the hunted, as both struggle to adapt to their changing environments.

As habitats change, scientists are asking whether insects, migratory songbirds, caribou and other animals that have evolved to exploit the tundra environment will adapt.