• 3. Adaptations in physical structure or behavior may improve an organism’s chance for survival. As a basis for understanding this concept:

  1. Students know plants and animals have structures that serve different functions in growth, survival, and reproduction.
  2. Students know examples of diverse life forms in different environments, such as oceans, deserts, tundra, forests, grasslands, and wetlands.
  3. Students know living things cause changes in the environment in which they live: some of these changes are detrimental to the organism or other organisms, and some are beneficial.
  4. Students know when the environment changes, some plants and animals survive and reproduce; others die or move to new locations. e. Students know that some kinds of organisms that once lived on Earth have completely disappeared and that some of those resembled others that are alive today.

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