IQ2 - Adaptations

Adaptations

Inquiry question: How do adaptations increase the organism’s ability to survive?

11_BIO_MODULE_3_IQ_2_3.3_EXAMINE THE ADAPTATIONS OF ORGANISMS THAT INCREASE THEIR ABILITY TO SURVIVE IN THEIR ENVIRONMENT - STRUCTURAL ADAPTATIONS.pptx

Focus on Structural Adaptations Powerpoint

adaptation types powerpoint.ppt

Types on Adaptations Powerpoint

11_BIOLOGY_MODULE_3_LESSON 3_ADAPTATIONS.docx

'Adaptations' Worksheet

Australian flora and fauna adaptations.docx

Conduct practical investigations, individually or in teams, or use secondary sources to examine the adaptations of organisms that increase their ability to survive in their environment, including:

– structural adaptations

– physiological adaptations

– behavioural adaptations

An organism’s adaptations are a result of the genes the organism inherits from its parents.

The proportion of well-adapted organisms in a population can increase over the generations by the process of evolution by natural selection.

Two emperor penguins

There are three different types of adaptations:

Behavioural - responses made by an organism that help it to survive/reproduce
Physiological - a body process that helps an organism to survive/reproduce
Structural - a feature of an organism’s body that helps it to survive/reproduce

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/z7sdmp3/revision/1

ACTIVITIES:

Watch the videos attached below this text box.
Complete the worksheet on 'Adaptations'.
First-hand investigations may be performed analysing models of skulls, plant moss using microscopes and modelling natural selection (Pictures of these first-hand investigations have been included below this text box).
Read and complete questions on pages 340-367 of the Pearson Yr 11 Biology textbook.

'Selection Pressures in Australia' video lesson

'Types of adaptations' video

Australian animal oddities | The Nature Conservancy AustraliaAustralia's geographical isolation has meant that most of our animals have evolved separately from animals in many other parts of the world. The result is a number of unique animal groups with some very curious ways of surviving in in the Australian environment.

Useful Website on Australia's 'evolved' organisms

FIRST HAND INVESTIGATIONS OF ADAPTATIONS

Source: https://images.app.goo.gl/5Ca9r95wE9v6iHaY9

Investigation of 'moss' that was located on the concrete slab of the LC at St Pauls - structural adaptations including root and leaf structure were investigated using the binocular microscopes

Natural Selection Simulation.pdf

'Natural Selection - Simulation' Experiment Worksheet

Conducting practical investigations of adaptations of organisms using simple materials, such as: model skulls, microscopes and craft materials to materials to represent bird beaks and bird food

'The Theory of Evolution by Natural selection' video lesson

11_BIO_MODULE_3_LESSON 4_ DARWIN’S OBSERVATIONS OF NATURAL SELECTION.docx

'Darwin's observations of Natural Selection' worksheet

L3 INV 1 Modeling Natural Selection.pdf

Powerpoint on 'Modelling Natural Selection'

darwin-by-hopper-2009.pdf

SKM_558e22062209500.pdf

SKM_558e22062209501.pdf

Investigate, through secondary sources, the observations and collection of data that were obtained by Charles Darwin to support the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection, for example:

– finches of the Galapagos Islands

– Australian flora and fauna

In 1831, Charles Darwin received an astounding invitation: to join the HMS Beagle as ship's naturalist for a trip around the world. For most of the next five years, the Beagle surveyed the coast of South America, leaving Darwin free to explore the continent and islands, including the Galápagos. He filled dozens of notebooks with careful observations on animals, plants and geology, and collected thousands of specimens, which he crated and sent home for further study.

Darwin later called the Beagle voyage "by far the most important event in my life," saying it "determined my whole career." When he set out, 22-year-old Darwin was a young university graduate, still planning a career as a clergyman. By the time he returned, he was an established naturalist, well-known in London for the astonishing collections he'd sent ahead. He had also grown from a promising observer into a probing theorist. The Beagle voyage would provide Darwin with a lifetime of experiences to ponder—and the seeds of a theory he would work on for the rest of his life.

Source: https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/darwin/a-trip-around-the-world

ACTIVITIES:

Watch the videos attached below this text box.
Complete the worksheet on 'Darwin's observations of Natural Selection'.
Perform a second-hand investigation on:

the observations and the collection of data that Darwin collected to support the theory of evolution by Natural Selection from the Finches of the Galapagos Islands.
the observations and the collection of data that Darwin collected to support the theory of evolution by Natural Selection from Australian flora and fauna (For fauna, focus on the Platypus. For flora, focus on the Nullabor Plain - journal article attached on this to the left of this text box)