People and the environmeny

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What are some difficulties in the arctic?
low temperatues, lack of food, frozen water, dark for 6 weeks
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What are some adaptations in the artic?
Hibernate during winter, thick fur and black layers, camouflage, black skin to absorb heat
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What are some difficulties in the tropical rainforest?
very warm and humid, dark on ground, lots of competion, not much grows near ground
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What are some adaptations in the tropical rainforest?
live up in canopy eg sloths, trees grow quickly to get light, very dark green leaves to absorb light, monkeys need to leap between trees
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What are some difficulties in the desert?
food and water are scarce, hot temperatures
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What are some adaptations in the desert?
Animals hide in cool burrows to avoid the highest temperautes, water frogs live underground and hold water in their mouths, camels have wide feet so they dont sink in sand, stands in breeze at top of dunes
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What is a habitat?
A place where a plant or animal lives
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What is a predator?
An animal that hunts, kills and eats other animals
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What is a herbivore?
animals like cattle, deer, sheep and rabbits which feed on plants
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What is a consumer?
An organism that does not make its own food
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What is a producer?
An organism that can make its own food
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What do the animals adaptations help them to do?
Survive in their habitats
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