Question

1. on saturday mornings, james babysits his nephew, tyler. tyler is fascinated by meerkats and watches every documentary he can about animals. tyler always talks for hours about what meerkats eat, how they live together in families and how they watch out for predators. on one show, tyler learns that meerkats spend the late afternoon in their burrows. “they are so lazy!” he complains. james explains that meerkats rest in the shade during the hottest part of the day. that behavior keeps their body temperature from rising too high. what need are meerkats filling when they return to their burrows in hot weather? finding a living space maintaining homeostasis getting water to drink getting food for energy

Explanation:

Homeostasis is the ability of an organism to maintain a stable internal environment. In this case, meerkats returning to their burrows in hot weather to keep their body temperature from rising too high is an example of maintaining homeostasis. Finding a living space is more about habitat selection in general (not specifically related to temperature regulation here). Getting water to drink and getting food for energy are different biological needs not related to the temperature - regulation behavior described.

Answer:

Maintaining homeostasis