Movement in Animals and Plants — BIOLOGY STD 7 — Question

It is the movement of entire body of an organism from one place to another. Movements like walking, running, flying, swimming, crawling shown by animals and microorganisms is locomotion. Locomotion helps the organisms in several ways :

• It helps the animals to move from one place to another place in search of food, water and shelter.
• It helps the animals to move away from their predators.
• During unfavourable conditions of environment it helps them to move to a favourable one.
• It helps them to move about to find their partner or mate for reproduction.
• It helps them to move to safe areas to lay egg or to give birth to young ones and bring them up.