Ecology Adaption

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What is Adaption?
Adaption describes how an organism is able to survive in various environments.
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Animal struggles in an adaption:
- Food
-Water
- Protection against weather
- Protection against predators
- Against Disease
- Against accidents
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Plant struggles in an adaption:
- For water
- For light, in the process of photosynthesis
- For minerals in the soil
- Against weather
- Against disease
- From being eaten
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How adaption is helpful for organisms?
- Adapted organisms are better at coping extremes of weather.
- Better competing food
- Better at escaping from predators
- Able to survive in their habitat and produce offspring.
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Artic habitat
Have extremely low temperature habitat
The ground is full, covered with snow for most of the year.
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How an animal from an artic habitat survive?
Animals like polar bears have thick insulating coat which traps heat to keep warm.
They usually have large amount of body fat.
They have a large body, size to surface area ratio which reduce heat loss by radiation.
They have camouflageable coat which is h
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Desert habitat
- very little rainfall
-a lot of sunshine during the day
-very little shade
At night it can be cold
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How camels survive in deserted habitat
Camels store large amount of water in the fat in their hump.
They have feet with large surface area to prevent sinking when walking on sand.
They have long eyelashes to prevent sand blowing in their eyes.
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How reptile animals survive in a desert habitat
Most reptiles will find shade under a rock, during a very hot day.
Snakes keep a loop off the ground as it moves across the sand sideways.
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How plants survive in dessert
A cactus has a long top root to reach water deep under, ground.
It has thick fleshy stem to store water.
It has needle shaped leaves to prevent water loss.
The needles help animals to not eat it.
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Animal struggles in an adaption:

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- Food
-Water
- Protection against weather
- Protection against predators
- Against Disease
- Against accidents

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Plant struggles in an adaption:

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How adaption is helpful for organisms?

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Artic habitat

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