Question: If an environment becomes warmer and drier, the change that would most likely help a species adapt would be an increase in its
Answer: ability to store water.
Hypothesis: ability to store water is a kind of adaptation to a dry environment
Supporting facts: sent1: living things require water for survival sent2: an animal requires air for survival sent3: moisture is a property of air mass and includes ordered values of dry / humid sent4: increase means more sent5: as a population of organisms decreases , the resources used by those organisms will increase sent6: adaptation is when an organism develops a trait over time for survival sent7: humidity is a property of weather and include ordered values of dry / humid sent8: as temperature in an environment decreases , the amount of water an animal in that environment will lose will decrease sent9: if water vapor is limited to reach a location , then that location will be dry sent10: if an animal relies on plants for food then that animal must store enough food to last through the winter sent11: positively impacting an organism 's survival increases the likelihood of survival of that organism sent12: organisms require liquid water to survive sent13: survival means to survive sent14: an adaptation has a positive impact on a living thing 's survival sent15: ability is a property of things and includes ordered values of able / unable / can / cannot sent16: drier means lower in amount of water sent17: if something increases something else then that something has a positive impact on that something else sent18: a dry environment is low in availability of water sent19: the increase of something required by an organism has a positive impact on that organism 's survival sent20: decreasing something negative has a positive impact on a thing sent21: adapt is similar to evolve sent22: storing water increases the water available to organisms in a dry environment sent23: as the available water in an environment increases , the populations of organisms in that environment will increase sent24: keeping is similar to storing sent25: an environment is similar to an ecosystem
Reasoning: [BECAUSE] drier means lower in amount of water [AND] a dry environment is low in availability of water [INFER] int1: as dryness increases in an environment , the available water in that environment will decrease [BECAUSE] int1 [AND] living things require water for survival [INFER] int2: as dryness in an environment increases, the ability of living things to survive in that environment decreases due to a lack of available water [BECAUSE] int2 [AND] storing water increases the water available to organisms in a dry environment [INFER] int3: as a living thing's ability to store water increases, that living thing's ability to survive in a dry environment increases [BECAUSE] int3 [AND] if something increases something else then that something has a positive impact on that something else [INFER] int4: ability to store water has a positive impact on an living thing's survival in a dry environment [BECAUSE] int4 [AND] an adaptation has a positive impact on a living thing 's survival [INFER] int5: ability to store water is a kind of adaptation to a dry environment