Test: Weather Climate & Adaptations of Animals to Climate - UPSC MCQ

Camel is found in desert because it can survive for many days without water and easily walk on sand.

Blubber is a layer of fat below the skin in some animals to protect from extreme cold as fat acts as insulator.

Camel perspires very less due to absent of sweat glands. It releases thick urine and have broad soles.

Atmospheric pressure of a place is measured with the help of an instrument called Barometer.

In India tropical rainforests are located in Western Ghats. It covers Kerala, Tamilnadu, Karnataka, Goa etc.

Toucans is a big birds with long beak to search prey from wood logs and stems of plants.

Some animals undergo long winter sleep to avoid cold condition, called as hibernation. Organism survive without taking food and water.

Those animals that change their body temperature with change in environmental temperature is called cold blooded animal.

India's best rainforests are found in the northeastern region which is not as affected by human population as the Western Ghats. The northeastern rainforests stretch from northern Assam to Nagaland, Manipur Mizoram and part of Arunachal Pradesh. Most of this region  is at an altitude  of around 900 metre.

The factors that determine the climate of a place are:

· Latitude

· Altitude

· Winds

· Distance from the sea

· Humidity and Ocean Currents

Longitude is not a factor that determines the climate of a place.

The bodies of birds are adapted for flying. Many of a bird's bones are hollow which makes birds' bodies lightweight. Flying birds have large chest muscles that move the wings.The long flight feathers on the wings and tail help birds balance and steer.

Water vapours present in the atmosphere is called humidity .

Seals, which are found in cold climates, have a thick deposition of fat called blubber that protects them from cold.

Camel doesnot live in the polar region. Camels are usually found in the desert, prairie or steppe

In ecology, a habitat is the type of natural environment in which a particular species of organism lives. Every organism has certain habitat needs for the conditions in which it will thrive, but some are tolerant of wide variations while others are very specific in their requirements. A habitat is not necessarily a geographical area, it can be the interior of a stem, a rotten log, a rock or a clump of moss, and for a parasitic organism it is the body of its host.

So the correct option is 'habitat'.