How do changes in the environment affect organisms?

How do changes in the How do changes in the environment affect environment affect

organisms?organisms?

Living things are adapted Living things are adapted to daily changes in their to daily changes in their

habitat…………….habitat…………….

Daily changesDaily changes

Flowers open and closeFlowers open and close

Daily changesDaily changes

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

Living things are Living things are adapted to seasonal adapted to seasonal

changes in their changes in their habitathabitat

Seasonal changes in a gardenSeasonal changes in a garden

A garden in A garden in

the summerthe summer

A woodlandA woodland

A woodland A woodland

in springin spring

The ArcticThe Arctic

The SeashoreThe Seashore

WilderbeastWilderbeast Wilderbeast Wilderbeast

migrate.migrate. They travel They travel

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

Grass will only Grass will only grow where it grow where it rains.rains.

Some insects Some insects spend winter in spend winter in protective cases protective cases called pupua.called pupua.

This butterfly is This butterfly is emerging from a emerging from a pupa.pupa.

Some plants store their food Some plants store their food for winter underground in for winter underground in

their roots and stems.their roots and stems.

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

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

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