Ocean Plants And Animals Adaptations

Encourage students to think about adaptations in marine animals related to obtaining food providing camouflage or safety from predators or dealing with changes in temperature salinity pressure lack of sunlight and need for oxygen.

Ocean plants and animals adaptations. They must find a way to breathe underwater and intake the salt water so amimals have adapted and grown gills. Sharks are very good at finding food. The tiny sea plants and animals are called plankton or phytoplankton.

Biome also is known as a habitat a part of an ecosystem. Physical adaptations are special body parts such as shapes skin and color that help the organisms to survive in their natural habitat. SP4 - Analyzing and Interpreting Data.

Some of the most amazing adaptations are from ocean animals like sharks jellies starfish stingrays and dolphins. There are plenty of plants in the ocean just like there are enough animals in the fish. The intertidal zone the pelagic zone and the abyss.

In this lesson students consider the diversity of animals in the deep ocean noting similarities and variations in how animals have adapted to their deep ocean environment. Basically enhalus is the genus of the plant. 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. There are many types of animals and plants in the ocean. Gills allow them to breathe in the ocean water.

Most animals and plants must survive here so of course they must adapt. Some float on the surface and others dive into the oceans depths. Animals such as flatworms sea stars giant isopod wood louse sole and flounder have adapted to living in the deepest ocean trenches where the pressure can be over one thousand atmospheres.