Biology
- Created by: Faolan
- Created on: 06-11-14 20:28
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- Competition and adaptions
- Animals and plants have to compete for limited resources. the best adapted animals or plants will win and survive
- Animals struggle
- Food, Water, against predators, for mates for territory against weather, against disease
- Plants struggle
- For water, for light, for space, for minerals in the soil, against weather
- A Desert- a desert can have very little rainfall. There is a lot of sunshine. There is very little shade. The temperature can get very hot. at night it can get very hot. e.g. a cable
- Stomach can hold 20 litres of water
- Produces very little urine
- Fat stored in hump
- No insulating fat under skin
- Long legs hold it well above the ground
- flat feet with large surface area
- An Arctic Habitats extremely low temperature. Ground covered with white snow for most of the year.
- Thick insulating coat.
- A large amount of body fat
- They have a large body o size to surface area
- Small ears and compact bides reduce surface area
- They have a camouflaged coat
- If an animal has large volume it will have a small surface area to volume ratio e.g. polar bear, seal, articfox
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