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Question

It's Biology. Ok, the direction says 'Explain how the drawing below illustrates the characteristics of life.' and it gives me a picture of two buffalos, one big one, and one little baby one. Both of them are eating grass. And there's a sun above it. I don't get what the direction's asking me to do =/

Answer 1

Maybe it's illustrating the circle of life-
Sun feeds grass.
Grass feeds buffalos.
Healthy well-fed buffalos yield offspring that survive.
Buffalo poop feeds grass.
Buffalo dies, decomposes, makes good fertilzer for grass for next generation to survive from.

Could also just be illustrating that it's always up to the moms to care for the kids because you can't count on deadbeat dads to be around LOL....

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Ok. The question is asking you to use the characteristics of living organisms and apply them to the pic. How is life defined? Living organisms need food (the sun is "food" for the grass that the buffalo are eating and the grass is their food). Also, the baby is a symbol of reproduction. Pm me at bestest_vee if you need more help. Bio is my thing.

Answer 4

Ok
The pic is showing you lots of things.
-buffalo
-grass
-the sun
-maybe some other animals
what you need to do is look and see which things explain the characteristics of things we deem as alive. you know the buffalo is alive but why do you say it is alive
that is what the question is asking

Answer 5

I think it represents the sun making the grass grow, the grass being eaten by an animal which reproduces and the young eats the grass to be strong and grow into an adult to start the process all over again.

Hope this is of help

Answer 6

Okay! The characteristics of life is like reperduction and mating and etc. So the buffalo reperducted and is eating and the sun is shining! We/they need all of those!

Answer 7

i think it goes like this...

bullalo eats grass
grass becomes poo inside buffalo
poo comes out
poo fertilizes where grass has been eaten
poo & sun make grass grow
bullalo eat grass

etc..

(eventually big buffalo makes much tasty food and novelty items for crass tourist market)

big buffalo tires of this and dares little buffalo to light his farts so it can be videoed and put on youtube.

Answer 8

sun grows grass, bufflo eat grass, it comes out the other end , fertilises the grass, more grass grows,
the buffalo get energy, grow strong , get together and make more buffalo, somewhere in all that is the basic food chain

Answer 9

It may be talking about the food chain and how life is dependent upon other life for food.--the sun provides energy for the producers-grass, the grass provides food for the consumers, the cows, and then when the cows die, they are consumed by the decomposers such as vultures and bacteria. Hope this helps.

Answer 10

Well it pretty much is asking you to explain how the picture shows stuff about life...

...the animals are eating, that's a start.

Also it's a big one and a baby one, so I'm assuming that the bigger one is a mother, and that's a part of life--reproduction.