ADAPTATION OF ORGANISMS TO THEIR HABITAT
Meaning of Adaptation
Adaptation means special features that help an organism to live and survive in a particular habitat. Every living thing on earth belongs to one habitat or the other because it is always interacting with some biotic and abiotic components such as energy, water, air (oxygen), food, carbon dioxide and suitable living conditions.
Living organisms show different adaptations in aquatic, terrestrial and arboreal habitat. All living things that live in the habitat are able to adapt to their environment both in structure and in function. That means that such plant or animal becomes fitted to its environment. For example, fish lives in water because it is adapted to life in water, the shape of a fish is well suited for rapid movement in its habitat, which is water (stream, ocean, sea, river, etc.).
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