Name: Adaptations in Aquatic Environment
Uploaded: 2019-07-19
Duration: 3 min 53 s
Description: We have learnt in our lower grades how living beings survive in different habitats. Let's learn how aquatic plants and animals have adapted to the underwater...

Question

Match the following.

Column A	Column B
1. Drip tip	a. Camels
2. Camouflage	b. Polar bear
3. Needle-like leaves	c. Rainforest trees
4. Flexible stems	d. Yak
5. Fleshy stem	e. Grassland plants
6. Hump	f. Boreal plants
7. Shed leaves	g. Cactus
8. Large chest and lungs	h. Deciduous trees
9. Thick fur and layer of fat	i. Sloth

Accepted Answer

1 - (c)

Leaves of rainforests have specialised tips, called drip tip. This type of leaves protects from rotting.

2 - (i)

The sloth exhibits camouflage. This adaptation enables them to hide from predators.

3 - (f)

Boreal forests trees have narrow and needle-like leaves. Trees have a conical shape that allows the snow to slide off easily.

4 - (e)

Grassland plants usually have flexible stems that blend instead of breaking when the wind strong.

5 - (g)

Cactus is a xerophyte (desert plant) and stem is swollen and fleshy to store water.

6 - (a)

Camels have a hump. Fat stored in a camel's hump acts as a food reserve.

7 - (h)

Most trees found in temperate forests are deciduous, that is, they shed their leaves mostly in the winter season.

8 -(d)

The yak has a large chest and lungs. It is one of the adaptations to the low oxygen content in the mountains.

9 - (b)

Thick fur and a layer of fat under the skin protect the polar bear from cold.

Column A Column B

1. Drip tip c. Rainforests trees

2. Camouflage i. Sloth

3. Needle-like leaves f. Boreal plants

4. Flexible stems e. Grassland plants

5. Fleshy stem g. Cactus

6. Hump a. Camels

7. Shed leaves h. Deciduous trees

8. Large chest and lungs d. Yak

9. Thick fur and layer of fat b. Polar bear

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