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Impact of Environmental Changes

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  • Why are many organisms like dragonflies as large as birds no longer around
    The environment changed
  • Besides food, what do plants give out that animals need?
    oxygen
  • What happens when an organism cannot adapt to the changes in the environment?
    It moves to a different environment
  • made up of the conditions around a living thing
    environment
  • What are the different ways a species may deal with environmental change?
    Some tolerate the change. Some adapt to the change. Some find a new place. Some die.
  • What two adaptations can plants have when the amount of sunlight decreases
    they grow new leaves or bend toward the sunlight
  • When all the organisms in a species die out, that is called
    extinction
  • Define adaptation
    The ability of an organism to adjust to its environment
  • What living things are at the bottom of the food chain?
    plants
  • Why did the black peppered moths survive during a time when there was so much pollution?
    The (dark) soot from the pollution covered trees so the dark moth blended in
  • Sometimes when the environment changes, it upsets the delicate balance of the ______ chains in an ecosystem
    food chains
  • When the world around them changes, living things _____, too.
    change
  • What two things can happen to animals when the temperature in their environment decreases?
    They grow thicker fur or a thicker layer of fat
  • Are environmental changes always a bad thing? Why or why not
    It can be both bad and good. When old species move out, new non-native species move in that find the change more suitable
  • When a species can't adapt or move to a more suitable environment, what happens?
    they die out
  • A characteristic that helps an organism live in its environment
    adaptation
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