Unit one

science

What are the basic needs that very living organisms needs?

Water, food, shelter, and air.

Provide and example of an organism and how the environment meets all of that organisms basic needs.

For example, a deer relies on forests for shelter, vegetation for food, and nearby water sources for hydration, as well as clean air to breathe.

What do u believe has the biggest impact on how an environment provides the needs of organisms

Climate is a significant factor that influences the availability of resources such as water, food, and shelter, affecting how well an environment can meet the needs of various organisms.

Howe can a adaptation improve a species chance of surviving?

An adaptation can enhance a species' survival by improving its ability to find food, evade predators, or thrive in its environment. Examples include camouflage, specialized feeding structures, or the ability to tolerate extreme temperatures.

an humans survive in habitats that they are not adapted to? How do we do this?

Humans can survive in habitats that they are not adapted to by using technology, such as coats, scuba gear, spacesuit, etc.

describe 3 types of symbiosis. include an example in each of your sescripitons.

Parasitism, commensalism, and mutualism. Parisitism: A tick drinking an animals blood, while the tick get all the advantages, the animal gets sick very easily. Commensalism: Sharks and particular fish. The fish eats the leftover food on the shark. Mutualism. Bees and flowers. Bees get the nectar, while the flowers get the pollen they need to grow.

What does natural resource mean?

Materials find outside, that are found in nature that humans use for basic survival, such as oil, wood, water, sunlight.

How has the relationship between humans and the environment changed since the first settlers were here?

The relationship between Humans and the environment has changed drastically because people confuse wants and needs. Such as needing food, needing more land for useless stuff, like parks. Back then, all we did was hunt what we needed. Though overhunting still occured, it was not as severe as now. Now, we take cattle and raise them on feedlots.

How do humans want’s affect the needs of organism’s?

Humans want’s affect the needs of organism’s by building something we don’t need, like the park that was built on water. There could have been thousands of organism’s living there. When we don’t want ugs, we used ddt, which was killing birds, by making the shells thinner.