The living organisms characteristics and habitats, From NCERT

1. What is a habitat?

• The surroundings where animals live is called their habitat

• an exotic flavoured ice- cream

• a dolphin with two fins

• The surroundings where animals don't live is called their habitat

2. How are cactus adapted to survive in a desert?

• they have no leaves and instead have prickly spines to prevent water loss through transpiration.

• Their stem is modified in such a way that it performs photosynthesis and conserves water.

• Their roots go very deep into the soil for absorbing water.

• they don't take in carbon dioxide for photosynthesis

The habitats of the plants and animals that live on land are called _________________ habitats.

• aerial

• aquatic

• terrestrial

• man-made

Soil, water and air are the____________ factors of a habitats.

• ibiotic

• ebiotic

• biotic

• abiotic

what are a few common characteristics of living things?

• growth

• respiration

• Excretion

• response to stimuli

• singing

name an animal which doesn't breathe through gills.

• golphin

• dolphin

• phale

• wale

small changes that take place in the body of a single organism over short periods, to overcome small problems due to changes in the surroundings, are called _____________

• aclimatisation

• acllinatisation

• acclimatisation

• acclimatisaton

Adaptation does not take place in a short time because __________________

• the abiotic factors of a region also change very slowly.

• the biotic factors of a region also change very slowly.

• the abiotic factors of a region also change very quickly.

• the abiotic factors of a region don't change at all.

what is this animal and what is its habitat?

• mountain leopard, mountain regions

• mountain goat, desert regions

• mountain goat, santa clause regions

• mountain goat, mountain regions

There are some sea animals like squids and octopus.

Where do they live and how do they get food

• they live in the desert with people and catch birds to eat.

• They stay on top of the water and catch any prey that moves towards them.

• They stay deeper in the ocean, near the seabed and catch any prey that moves towards them.

• they have no place to live and eat scraps of old tires