Answer the following:
1. Define a habitat.
2. Give an example of an activity to show living beings respond to
stimuli
3. Name any two saprotrophs.
4.Write a special feature of hydrophytes.
5.ls snail vertebrate or invertebrate? Give reasons.
6.Find a difference between a fish and a star fish.
7.Write two usefulness of animals.
8.How are shrubs different from herbs?
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Answers
1) the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.
2) All living things are able to respond to stimuli in the external environment. For example, living things respond to changes in light, heat, sound, and chemical and mechanical contact. To detect stimuli, organisms have means for receiving information, such as eyes, ears, and taste buds.
3) water mold and fungi
4) Because they have less need to conserve water, hydrophytes often have a reduced cuticle and fewer stomata than other plants. ... Because water is readily available, hydrophytes also have a reduced root system and less vascular tissue than other plants (which also makes plant parts less dense and helps them float).
5) Snails are invertebrate . They carry their `` skeletal system '' ( exoskeleton ) on the outside in the shape of their shells , they do not have internal bone . Vertebrates have internal skeletal systems with a spine and spinal column .
6) starfish is any of various asteroids or other echinoderms (not in fact fish) with usually five arms, many of which eat bivalves or corals by everting their stomach while fish is (countable) a cold-blooded vertebrate animal that lives in water, moving with the help of fins and breathing with gills
7 ) Human uses of animals include both practical uses, such as the production of food and clothing, and symbolic uses, such as in art, literature, mythology, and religion. All of these are elements of culture, broadly understood. Animals used in these ways include fish, crustaceans, insects, molluscs, mammals and birds.
8) Herbs and shrubs are the different types of plants categorized on the basis of their size and branching pattern. Herbs have soft and unbranched stems, whereas, shrubs have woody, branched and multi stems. Shrubs are often confused with herbs because of their similar characteristics, but shrubs are taller than herbs.
Answer:
1. A habitat is a place where an animal or a plant lives.
2. Touch a hot pan. It feels very hot because of stimuli.
3. Mushroom and yeast.
4. The hydrophytes have a special coting called waxycoting which prevents petals from decaying in water.
5. It is invertebrate.
6. Fish are vertebrates and star fish are invertebrates.
7. Helps in making manure, helps in medicine making.
8. Herbs have soft stem. Shrub have woody stem.
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