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(Aquatic Habitat) : By: Anisha Banerjee Vi-C

Fish have streamlined bodies, scales, gills, and flat fins and tails to help them swim efficiently and breathe underwater. Dolphins and whales have lungs and blowholes to breathe air at the surface. Aquatic birds like ducks have webbed feet and bills adapted for swimming and catching prey in water. Octopuses and squids prefer staying near the seafloor and ambush prey rather than actively swimming. Aquatic plants have thin or divided leaves and hollow stems or float to survive submerged, while amphibians can live on land and water with strong hind limbs.

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(Aquatic Habitat) : By: Anisha Banerjee Vi-C

Fish have streamlined bodies, scales, gills, and flat fins and tails to help them swim efficiently and breathe underwater. Dolphins and whales have lungs and blowholes to breathe air at the surface. Aquatic birds like ducks have webbed feet and bills adapted for swimming and catching prey in water. Octopuses and squids prefer staying near the seafloor and ambush prey rather than actively swimming. Aquatic plants have thin or divided leaves and hollow stems or float to survive submerged, while amphibians can live on land and water with strong hind limbs.

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CH-9

ANIMALS AND THEIR SURROUNDINGS


(AQUATIC HABITAT)
By:

Anisha Banerjee
VI-C
INDEX
A. Aquatic habitat
B. Aquatic Animals
C. Adaptations in aquatic

animals
D. Adaptations in aquatic
plants
E. Special aquatic animals
AQUATIC HABITAT
• An organism finds food, shelter, and everything else it
needs to live within its habitat.

• An aquatic habitat is a habitat in water.

• It includes areas that are


– permanently covered by water
–occasionally covered by water

• Oceans, seas, rivers, lakes and ponds are examples


of aquatic habitats
Aquatic habitat
AQUATIC Animals
• Organisms living in ponds, lakes,
rivers, seas and oceans are
called aquatic animals.

• For example Fish, Octopus, Star


Fish, Dolphin, Swan etc .

• The aquatic animals need to


adapt to their surroundings in a
different way.

• All have something common in


their body design which helps
them adapt to the aquatic
habitat.
Adaptations in animals
Fish: • All fishes have a streamlined body
Scales which help them move swiftly

• The slippery scales covering the body


of the fish protect them and also help
them to swim

• The flat fins and tail help them to


change direction and keep them
balanced in water

• Fish also have gills which enables them


Gills Flat fin
to absorb oxygen dissolved in water
Flat tail
Streamlined body
Adaptations in animals
Dolphins and whales
Blowhole There are some aquatic animals,
like dolphins and whales who do
not have gills.

They have lungs nostrils and


blowholes located on the upper
parts of the body.
Blowhole
These aquatic animals rise up to
the surface of water to breathe.
They also have the ability to stay
under water without breathing
for a long time.
Adaptations in animals
Aquatic birds
Aquatic birds have webbed feet,
bills and legs adapted to feed in
water, and the ability to dive
from the surface or the air to
catch prey in water.
E.G Duck, Swan, Pelican, Crane
etc.

Webbed Feet
Adaptations in animals
octopus and squids
• Aquatic animals like octopus and
squids do not have a streamlined
body

• These animals are the ones that


prefer to swim less and stay near
the waterbed

• These animals do not move


around to catch prey instead they
catch that happen to come near

• Although when they swim around


they make their bodies
streamlined
Aquatic plants
• Aquatic plants have small roots as water
absorption is not a problem.

• The main functioning of roots is to anchor the


plant in it’s position.

• The stems are hollow to make the plant light


and enable it to float. This feature is seen in
lotus.

• Leaves of the plants which are submerged in


water are either thin or highly divide so that
water could flow through the leaves and also
not damage them. E.g. tape grass and hydrilla.

• Floating leaves are large and flat and there is


a waxy surface to make it waterproof. They
also have stomata on the upper surface. E.g.
lotus.
Special aquatic animals
Amphibians
• Aquatic animals who
can live on land also are
called amphibians(both
on land and water)
• They usually have 4
limbs with strong hind
limbs
• Frogs, toads, turtles
salamanders and newt
are some examples of
amphibian

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