How do changes in the environment affect organisms

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How do changes in the environment affect organisms?

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Living things are adapted to daily changes in their habitat…………….

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Daily changes

Flowers open and close

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Daily changes

Sea anemones pull in their tentacles when the tide goes out to stop them drying out.

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Living things are adapted to seasonal changes in their habitat

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Seasonal changes in a garden

A garden in

the summer

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A woodland

A woodland

in spring

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The Arctic

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The Seashore

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Wilderbeast

Wilderbeast migrate.

They travel hundreds of miles every winter looking for grass to eat.

Grass will only grow where it rains.

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Some insects spend winter in protective cases called pupua.

This butterfly is emerging from a pupa.

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Some plants store their food for winter underground in their roots and stems.

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Squirrels store foods like nuts in the autumn to eat during the winter when there is not much food around.

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Some animals like tortoises, hedgehogs and bears, cannot store food to keep them warm. Instead they go to sleep in a warm sheltered place, such as undera pile of old leaves or inside an old tree trunk. This is called hibernation.