Zusammenfassung der Ressource
GCSE AQA B1- Adaptions for survival
- Living in Difficult conditions
- Plants
- long roots
- Small or no
leaves
- smaller suface area= less water
evaporating
- Tissues that
can store
water
- Animals
- Must be able to
manage long time
without water
- E.g. camels can hold over 20
litres of water stored of fat in
their humps
- Desert animals have large ears
- large surface area= helps
animal lose more body
heat
- Animals that live in cold places often
have very thick fur and layers of fat
- Fur is often white for camoflage
- Plants and animals both have thorns,
poisons and warning colours to deter predators
- Extremophiles
- These organisms live in very difficult
enviroments
- These are often microorganisms
- Most organisms wouldn't
survive in conditions such as
high temps and high pressure
- They have very stable
protein molecules to
survive