Adept adaptations

5 a) A mole has very poor eyesight. Suggest why moles don’t need good

eyesight.

b) How do moles find their food?

c) Suggest one animal that a mole might eat.

7Cb

Adept adaptations

6 The top photograph shows a common rabbit.

a) What can you say about the length of the common rabbits’ ears compared with the jack rabbit and Arctic hare?

b) Suggest why common rabbits have ears this size.

7Cb

common rabbit

jack hare

arctic hare

Adept adaptations6 c) Which of these habitats do

common rabbits live in?

7Cb

Arctic habitat Underground habitat

Woodland habitat Pond habitat Desert habitat

common rabbit

Adept adaptations6 d) How do you think the fur colour of

a common rabbit helps it to survive?

7Cb

common rabbit

Adept adaptations5 a) A mole has very poor eyesight.

Suggest why moles don’t need good eyesight.

They live underground, where it is dark.

b) How do moles find their food?

using their senses of smell and vibration

c) Suggest one animal that a mole might eat.

earthworm

7Cb

Adept adaptations6 The top photograph shows a

common rabbit.

a) What can you say about the length of the common rabbits’ ears compared with the jack rabbit and Arctic hare?

They are of medium length(between that of the jack rabbit and the Arctic hare).

7Cb

common rabbit

jack hare

arctic hare

Adept adaptations

6 b) Suggest why common rabbits have ears this size.

They do not need to lose heat so much as the jack rabbit

and they do not need to retain heat as much as the Arctic hare.

7Cb

common rabbit

Adept adaptations6 c) Which of these habitats do

common rabbits live in?

7Cb

woodlandcommon rabbit

Arctic habitat Underground habitat

Woodland habitat Pond habitat Desert habitat

Adept adaptations6 d) How do you think the fur colour of a

common rabbit helps it to survive?

7Cb

It camouflages it against the bark of trees.

common rabbit