Geography Year 8: ME Animal Adaptations

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How have Cacti adapted?

• They have a waxy skin to hlp keep water in.

• They have spines instead of leaves to reduce water loss.

Some Cacti have two types of root system

• The first is a shallow network just below the surface can soak up any rain water as soon as possible

• The second system reach up to 3 meters below ground to reach the deepest groundwater

• They have fleshy stems so that they can store water in droughts
  

How have camels adapted to the envirement?

• They have long eyelashes to keep the sand away from their eyes
  

• They have humps to store fat.
  

• They have long legs to keep their body away from the fiery sand

• They have hair on their backs to protect their skin from the sun’s glare .

• They have long large intestines so that as much water can be absorped from their food.

How have thorny devils adapted to the enviroment

• The thorny devil is camoflaged, making it hard for the preditor to see them.

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  They can collect water from anywhere as they have tiny grooves which direct the water to the mouth.

• Their spiky appearance does’nt look appetising to perdators.

• It borrows underground at night to stay warm and regulate it’s tempreture.

TEA

This is an ancronym for Trend, Evidence, Anomolly they are used for analysing graphs.

Remember that a climate graphs hows the tempreture and rainfall.
The bar ALWAYS represents the rainfall. The Line ALWAYS represents the temperature.