1. Adaptations to survive the cold and hot environments

2. Learning outcomes
Label some adaptations of animals to live in different environments (G)
Recall how having these adaptations help the animal survive in their habitat (F)
I can describe how these adaptation allow them to survive (E)

3. What do these animals have in common?
Look at the following…
What do these animals have in common?

4. Animals in Cold Climates
Common features:
Thick fur coats
Layer of blubber under the skin
Colour – many change colour in the summer
What about body shape?

5. Body Shape Have fat, round body shapes with short legs
Have small ears – why?

6. What do these animals have in common?
Look at the following…
What do these animals have in common?

7. Animals in Dry Climates
Common features:
Large thin ears
Little body fat
Thin, silky fur
Long limbs to help spread heat
They also often only come out at night. Why?
What about body shape?

8. Body Shape

9. Surface Area to Volume Ratio
Animals loose heat from the body surfaces that are in contact with the surrounding air/water.
Reducing this contact surface reduces heat loss
Increasing the surface increases heat loss

11. Surface Area to Volume Ratio
Hidden surfaces are exposed

12. Adaptation in animals On your own:
Using these keywords in your answers: adaptation, conserve, surface area : volume ratio, camouflage.
An elephant has a small surface area compared to its volume. How will this affect it in hot climates?
Why do very small animals struggle to live in the arctic?
Why are arctic foxes white in the winter?
Wrinkly elephants?
Big eared foxes?
What’s it all about?

13. Compare these two animals…
Desert Fox Arctic Fox
Can you add any adaptations or reasons for the adaptation?

15. * elephant * camel * Polar bear mole bat * whale zebra tiger duck
Take your 4 animals (including at least one with a *) and:
Identify the main/key characteristics of each animal
Name the adaptations that help each animal to survive
* elephant
* camel
* Polar bear
mole
bat
* whale
zebra
tiger
duck
flocking starling
sheep
owl
wildebeest
dolphin
shark
Animal
What adaptations does the animal have?
How adaptations help them survive in that habitat?