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    Y4 Unit 8 - HW Page 212-213 Adaptations For Survival

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    The document discusses how different organisms perceive and respond to stimuli in ways that support their survival. It provides examples of how planaria respond to chemicals, bats use echolocation to respond to sound waves, snakes detect heat to find prey and avoid predators, and how plants exhibit phototropism, thigmotropism, and gravitropism in response to light, touch, and gravity to optimize growth and access to resources like sunlight. These stimulus-response adaptations help the organisms find food, avoid threats, and carry out other activities necessary for survival.

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    The document discusses how different organisms perceive and respond to stimuli in ways that support their survival. It provides examples of how planaria respond to chemicals, bats use echolocation to respond to sound waves, snakes detect heat to find prey and avoid predators, and how plants exhibit phototropism, thigmotropism, and gravitropism in response to light, touch, and gravity to optimize growth and access to resources like sunlight. These stimulus-response adaptations help the organisms find food, avoid threats, and carry out other activities necessary for survival.

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    The document discusses how different organisms perceive and respond to stimuli in ways that support their survival. It provides examples of how planaria respond to chemicals, bats use echolocation to respond to sound waves, snakes detect heat to find prey and avoid predators, and how plants exhibit phototropism, thigmotropism, and gravitropism in response to light, touch, and gravity to optimize growth and access to resources like sunlight. These stimulus-response adaptations help the organisms find food, avoid threats, and carry out other activities necessary for survival.

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    How do perceiving and responding to stimuli contribute to survival?

    Open your textbook on pages 212-213. Read the information in the tables and then complete the empty sections. Everything listed ‘Fill in’ needs to be completed.

    Organism Stimulus Type of receptor Response When this might be found in nature Why this response/adaptation
    supports survival

    Planaria Dissolved chemicals Chemoreceptors Chemoreceptors in the front end Planaria move toward higher This helps them get more nutrients,
    of planaria are stimulated by concentrations of dissolved which they need to survive
    different chemicals dissolved in the nutrients in their surrounding water.
    water surrounding the planaria.
    The planaria move either toward or
    away from the dissolved chemicals.

    Bats Echos Sonoreceptors Sonoreceptors in the bats 'ears Bats use echolocation to identify This helps the bats find food, move
    are stimulated by the sound waves the size and location of different around in the dark, and get away
    in the bats' surroundings. The bat objects in their surroundings. To do from potential predators.
    adjusts direction and style of flying this, bats produce a high-pitched
    depending on the intensity and sound while flying and wait for the
    direction of the sound waves sound waves to bounce off nearby
    objects and return, as an echo, to
    the bat. Sonoreceptors send
    signals about the sound waves of
    the echo to the bats' brain, which
    uses the signals to determine how
    big the objects are, where they are
    located, and whether they are
    moving or stationary.

    Snakes Body heat of nearby Thermoreceptors Thermoreceptors in the 'pit Snakes are able to located This helps them get food, and
    animals organs' of snakes are stimulated by predators and prey, and are able to prevent them from ‘becoming food’
    subtle changes in environmental make quick reactions using the
    thermoreceptors
    temperature caused by nearby
    animals. Snakes use this
    information to adjust the direction
    and nature of their movements.
    Organism Stimulus Type of receptor Response/Growth patterns When this might be found in nature Why this response/adaptation
    supports survival

    Plants Direction of sunlight Photoreceptor Phototropism: photoreceptor As plants grow around each other, Plants need sunlight to
    proteins in leaves are stimulated they block each other's direct photosynthesise, and plants need
    by the sunlight. The plant releases exposure to the sunlight. Plants to photosynthesise to survive. So,
    getting more sunlight increases the
    hormones, which causes the plant change the direction and angle in
    amount they can photosynthesise,
    to change the direction it is growing which they grow so they can get and the chance of survival.
    so it grows toward the light. access to more sunlight.

    Plants Insects landing on Mechanoreceptor Thigmotropism: The This could help carnivorous plants This allows the carnivorous plants
    leaves mechanoreceptor reacts to the capture flies and other small to get nutrients from the insects
    touch stimulus insects they capture

    Plants Force of gravity Mechanoreceptors Gravitropism: mechanoreceptor Plants use this to grow the roots This allows the to keep balance
    proteins in root cells perceive the downwards, and the rest of the and become stable
    direction of the force of gravity, and plants upwards
    grow in the same direction;
    mechanoreceptor proteins in
    shoots perceive the direction of the
    force of gravity, and grow in the
    opposite direction.

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