Ocean Plants And Animals Adaptations

SP4 - Analyzing and Interpreting Data.

Ocean plants and animals adaptations. Although they lack a central nervous system that responds to its environment in the same fashion as animals plants nonetheless make behavioral adaptions as well as physical adaptations. Well you cant just plant anything in the desert and expect it to grow. Coastal plants need special adaptations to survive.

Water depth temperature and the presence or absence of light are some of the conditions that differ in these habitats. They must find a way to breathe underwater and intake the salt water so amimals have adapted and grown gills. Add to cart Categories.

Gills allow them to breathe in the ocean water. Many animals such as cockles are adapted to live in these conditions. The plants and animals that live in these cold environments however require special adaptations.

The dense ocean water is. They must find a way to breathe underwater and intake the salt water so amimals have adapted and grown gills. The ecosystems in the open ocean biome vary greatly based on water temperature sunlight and available nutrients.

Examples of physical adaptations the thickness of an animals fur helps them to survive in cold environments. Botany Nature Curriculum Science Zoology Tags. Ocean animals have unique adaptations depending on what ocean habitat they live in.

In future lessons students will research rocky shore animals to compare animals in these 2 habitats. These are the plants and animals most often found in the brackish waters of estuaries. The intertidal zone the pelagic zone and the abyss.