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• Explain and illustrate how surface area to volume ratio is linked to maintaining the correct body temperature.
• Discuss how and why climate change is affecting the distribution of animals.
• Explain how an unfamiliar plant is adapted and give reasons for its adaptations.
• Suggest and explain why a cactus would not survive in a cold climate.
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Key Adaptations in Animals
Facts
• Organisms have features (adaptations) that enable them to survive
in the conditions which they normally live. These adaptations may
be structural, behavioural or functional.
2. Behavioural
The ways the organism behaves – such as migration
or hibernation to avoid the conditions of cold
climates.
3. Functional
These are the things that go on inside an organisms
body that are related to processes like reproduction
and metabolism – such as enzymes with high
optimum temperatures for organisms that live in
deserts.
SH AR E Animal Adaptations
Surface Area to Volume Ratio
TA S K 1 Animal Adaptations
• Complete your sheet and
treasury-tag it in your books.
Sand colour, to camouflage Use rocks and sticks to open Wings are fin-shaped to
fruits and get to insects allow them to swim.
Wide flat feet, to prevent
them from sinking into the Flexible toes and joints to Have large fat-stores to
sand help them climb trees. protect from the cold.
TA S K 1 Answers
• 9 questions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6L3korqXb4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/learningzone/clips/plant-adaptations-extreme-cold/5506.html
SH AR E Plant Adaptations
• The rate at which a plant loses water is linked to
the conditions in which it grows.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ8h1YBTSvE
A PP LY Adapt and Survive
• Organisms live in lots of extreme
environments: inside a volcano, top of
Mt. Everest, bottom of the ocean, surface
of Mars.
• Extension – write a
definition of your key
word.