How does an organism respond to its environment? It might.....?

Answer 1

I see three possible scenarios:

1) It survives unchanged and continues to reproduce as is.

2) It cannot survive and becomes extinct or moves.

3) It has difficulty surviving but further generations mutate in a way which better enables it to survive.

Note the fact that a mutation is a pure accident. It can be beneficial or harmful.

Answer 2

they adapt to their environment

All organisms have adaptations that help them survive and thrive. Some adaptations are structural. Structural adaptations are physical features of an organism like the bill on a bird or the fur on a bear. Other adaptations are behavioral. Behavioral adaptations are the things organisms do to survive. For example, bird calls and migration are behavioral adaptations.
Adaptations are the result of evolution. Evolution is a change in a species over long periods of time.

Adaptations usually occur because a gene mutates or changes by accident! Some mutations can help an animal or plant survive better than others in the species without the mutation.

For example, imagine a bird species. One day a bird is born with a beak that is longer than the beak of other birds in the species. The longer beak helps the bird catch more food. Because the bird can catch more food, it is healthier than the other birds, lives longer and breeds more. The bird passes the gene for a longer beak on to its offspring. They also live longer and have more offspring and the gene continues to be inherited generation after generation.