Interdependence in Nature: Backyard 5/29/11

Some flowers depend on other factors to help them pollinate. Here, a bee is collecting pollen on its feet. When the bee stops at another flower, the pollen will be transfered, and fertilization will hopefully take place.

Structure Function: Zoo 5/20/11

The monkey's tail is structured in a way to act as a third arm in order to hang from tree limbs, or in this case ropes.

Continuity and Change/ Evolution/ Natural Selection: Zoo 5/20/11

All of these fish are from the class Actinopterygii but they all belong to a different species. All of these different species are thought to have evolved from a common ancestor but differenciated based on natural selection.

Energy Transfer/ Scavenger: Nature Center 5/29/11

The vulture would be considered a scavenger because its diet involves organisms that have already been killed. Once it eats, the food is broken down using energy to create useable energy for cells.

Regulation/ Thermal Regulation: Nature Center 5/29/11

These lizards were trying to burry themselves in the sand to regulate their body temperature by moving further away from the heat lamp, under the cool sand in their habitat.

Universal Solvent: Nature Center 5/29/11

Water (H2O) is a universal solvent. Many different substances are dissolved in water. Oxygen and other nutrients are dissolved in this pond in order to keep the organisms inhabiting it alive.  

Organisms with a Gilled Respiratory System: Nature Center 5/29/11

This fish has a gilled respiratory system. This means that gas exchange occurs at a localized extension in the body surfaces of aquatic animals.