Question

What are adaptation and habitat?

Answer 1

Adaptation:

1. The process through which a species adapts to its surroundings is known as adaptation.
2. Natural selection has acted on heritable variation over numerous generations to produce it.
3. Organisms adapt to their surroundings in a multitude of ways, including their structure, physiology, genetics, movement or dispersion, and other factors.
4. For example, giraffes have long necks for eating on the tops of trees.

Habitat:

1. The term habitat refers to the collection of resources and physical and biological conditions that exist in a certain region in order to sustain a species existence and reproduction.
2. The habitat of a species may be thought of as the physical expression of its biological area.

i) Terrestrial habitat:

1. The plants and animals that dwell on land are considered to reside in terrestrial ecosystems.
2. Forests, grasslands, deserts, coastal, and alpine areas are examples of terrestrial ecosystems.

ii) Aquatic habitat:

1. Aquatic habitats are the habitats of plants and animals that live in water.
2. Aquatic ecosystems include ponds, marshes, lakes, rivers, and seas.