What is the Key

Factor for Species’

Survival?
 Many processes disturb the environment and bring about
a lot of changes. Species definitely have to respond or
react to these changes in order for them to survive.
 Failure of organisms to respond to these changes would
lead to extinction. As the organisms respond to these
changes in the environment, they, too, undergo individual
changes.
 The ability of the organisms to respond to the changes in
the environment is known as adaptation.
 Structural Adaptation – It is also known as physical
adaptations are physical features of the body that
assist in some way with survival or reproducing. Some
examples include having horns to defend against
predators and to compete against others. Having
camouflage that helps you blend with the environment
is also a very useful adaptation to have. It can help to
hide from predators who might be looking for food.
Structural adaptation of a lot of plants is to have a
brightly colored flowers which attracts insects and
assist with the pollination process
 Behavioral Adaptation – Behavioral Adaptation is any
activity that is instinctive or, which an organism has
learned or has become conditioned of doing, for
protection to the environmental change. For example, a
opossum plays dead when it spot a predator, birds
migrate to other places during winter season to look for
a place with the better climate, to hibernate during
winter season, and to estivate during summer by large
animals
 Physiological Adaptation - It is the thing that
the organism’s body does without necessarily
having to consciously tell it to do so. Humans
perspire when the environmental temperature
gets higher than usual. Sweating is an
evaporative cooling system. The skin darkens
when we swim and do recreational activities in
places exposed to the sun. The darkening of the
skin protects the underlying tissue from
dehydration