Ocean Plants And Animals Adaptations

Terrestrial Land habitat and AquaticWater habitat.

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. Many animals such as cockles are adapted to live in these conditions. You would have to have a plant.

Some float on the surface and others dive into the oceans depths. The intertidal zone the pelagic zone and the abyss. Most animals have sleek bodies to swim through the water the sleek bodies help cut down friction on the animal.

Although they lack a central nervous system that responds to its environment in the same fashion as animals plants nonetheless make behavioral adaptions as well as physical adaptations. Light does not fully penetrate to the sea floor but these plants still undergo photosynthesis. There are plenty of plants in the ocean just like there are enough animals in the fish.

These are the plants and animals most often found in the brackish waters of estuaries. Sunlight water and carbon dioxide are necessary for plants to live. Add to cart Categories.

Sharks are very good at finding food. One male fish and several female fish. A biome is a place where a plant or animal lives.

They must find a way to breathe underwater and intake the salt water so amimals have adapted and grown gills. They have strong shells that protect them from wave action drying out and the prying beaks of predators. The ocean has three broad habitats.