Why Do Crickets Make Noise?
Why Do Elephants Have Tusks?
Why Do Fish Have Scales?
Why Do Apples Grow On Trees?
Please no smarty farty answers like (To the fish one) 'so they can breathe' i need good explanations....THANKS!
2007-03-26 03:47:59 · 6 answers · asked by Caitlyn<3 3 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
1) Crickets make noise for:
a- proximity warnings (i.e- to call to others and also, if they stop, it means a threat has approached)
b- for mating
c- for communication of food and water
2) Elephants have tusks as a defense mechanism. They can use them as battering rams and goring pikes to fend off predators and aggressors.
3) Fish have scales for protection from their environment (heat/cold balancing) and also for defense. Light is irregularly reflected off of their scales, obscuring their true size, position and color, making it easier for them to evade predators.
4) Apples grow on trees because trees grow apples. (I know, that sounds like a smarty-farty answer, but it's the truth) They would grow on bushes if bushes grew fruit, but they don't. Neither do vines, tubers or stalks (with the exception of tomatoes). If apples grew on something else, they wouldn't have the same basic "swollen ovary" structure with the spongy or pulpy sac surrounding a centralized seed casing (containing multiple seeds) covered in a waxy or pithy skin. They would be something else, and we probably wouldn't call them "apples".
Did I make it in 10 minutes or less??
2007-03-26 04:03:49 · answer #1 · answered by prof. hambone 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Crickets make noise because they like music
Elephants have tusks cos they like to look good and it could be because generally elephants grow too much and the tusks are the bits that are visible
Fish have scales cos it keeps the insides fresh when we eat them
Apples grow on trees cos Jesus made it that way
2007-03-26 11:00:28 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Crickets make sounds because that how they show the females where they are
Elephants have tusk beacuase they where born like that maybe for ivory or to defend them selves.
Fish have scales maybe for protection
Apples grow on tress because if they grew in the ground the worms would eat them much more and they need air
2007-03-26 10:54:19 · answer #3 · answered by Dreamy Girl 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Crickets im going to skip and go strait to the elephants they have tusk because elephants use their tusks to pry bark off trees or dig for roots, and in social encounters as an instrument of display or as a weapon. To wop or smack a hunter
2007-03-26 10:56:21 · answer #4 · answered by Kodak 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Sorry, I have a moral objection to cheating on homework.
2007-03-26 10:53:08 · answer #5 · answered by Lost in Erehwon 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
why dont you google it
2007-03-26 10:51:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋