AEcology Niche the role a living thing plays
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AEcology Niche- the role a living thing plays in its habitat. Example: • Plants provide nesting sites and food. • When an organism pollinates a plant.
Camouflage and Mimicry
Camouflage • Have you ever wondered why animals have spots, strips, or certain colors? • Sometimes an animal’s colors can be a difference between life and death. • Animals use their colors to blend into the environment. • What is this called?
Adaptations • Camouflage is a type of animal adaptation. • What is an adaptation? • An adaptation is something that helps animals survive better.
Find the critters! See if you can find the camouflaged animals in these pictures. The animals you are looking for are a deer, frog, and quail. Quail
Look closely to find this animal! Deer!
Can you see the frog?
Mimicry • Animals may also try to look like another animals. • For example, non poisonous snakes will rattle their tale and flatten their head to look poisonous to a predator. • This is called Mimicry, where an animal tries to mimic or copy another. Which snake is poisonous?
Other forms of mimicry… • Another example of mimicry involves the monarch butterfly, which is toxic and very nasty to eat. Its bright orange coloration is a warning to birds to leave it alone. The nontoxic viceroy butterfly has developed colors and wing patterns that are very similar to those of the monarch and so most birds won’t take a chance by taste -testing it!
- Miracle and morality play
- Can a realized niche be larger than a fundamental niche
- Example of apparent competition
- The plays the thing
- Describe the role competition plays in shaping communities.
- Molding a person meaning
- Forecasts play an important role in
- Importance of paralanguage
- Deca role plays
- Dignity: the essential role it plays in resolving conflict