How do plants and animals adapt to their enviorment?
Bat sonar Chimp tool use rabbits and foxes that turn white in winter Moths whose wings match tree bark Sharks – light on the bottom so that things looking from below them can’t see them Gazelles stripes to blend in with the grass The way it works is the process of evolution selects those who are most adapted to their environment. An early form of bats did not have sonar, but as the sonar developed, the bats that had it caught more food, didn’t run into walls, and were able to survive better. Because they were able to prosper, they were able to reproduce and pass on those sonar genes to the next generation. There are famous studies of moth evolution in England in the mid 1800’s. The Peppered moth has two varities – a light and a dark. As England came into the industrial revolution and was using more and more carbon based energy, more soot was produced. As the soot from the burning of fossil fuels was deposited on building, trees, and various areas, the dark moth was ‘selected’ and they
