Ocean Plants And Animals Adaptations

Encourage students to think about adaptations in marine animals related to obtaining food providing camouflage or safety from predators or dealing with changes in temperature salinity pressure lack of sunlight and need for oxygen.

Ocean plants and animals adaptations. Have students identify animal adaptations in. Physical adaptations are special body parts such as shapes skin and color that help the organisms to survive in their natural habitat. Many animals such as cockles are adapted to live in these conditions.

Gills allow them to breathe in the ocean water. When it gets scared it hides in a dark hole and changes its color until it feels safe. Gills allow them to breathe in the ocean water.

The following section divides ocean life into seven basic groups. Animal Adaptations - The Indian Ocean. How Did Ocean Animals Adapt To There Surroundings.

Animals such as flatworms sea stars giant isopod wood louse sole and flounder have adapted to living in the deepest ocean trenches where the pressure can be over one thousand atmospheres. Habitats are classified into two domains. Some float on the surface and others dive into the oceans depths.

How Do Plants Adapt In The Sahara Desert. In future lessons students will research rocky shore animals to compare animals in these 2 habitats. Sunlight water and carbon dioxide are necessary for plants to live.

Ocean animals have unique adaptations depending on what ocean habitat they live in. The ocean has three broad habitats. Terrestrial Land habitat and AquaticWater habitat.