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Pitstop Check
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Students should be able to, when provided with appropriate information suggest how organisms are adapted to the conditions in which they live. |
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What is an adaptation? |
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Students should be able to explain how organisms are adapted to live in their natural environment, given appropriate information. |
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How are organisms adapted to live in their natural environment? |
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Organisms have features (adaptations) that enable them to survive in the conditions in which they normally live. These adaptations may be structural, behavioural or functional |
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What are the three types of adaptations organisms can have to survive in the conditions that they live? |
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Some organisms live in environments that are very extreme, such as at high temperature, pressure, or salt concentration. These organisms are called extremophiles. |
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What is an extremophile? |
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Bacteria living in deep sea vents are extremophiles. |
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What type of microbe lives in deep sea vents? Adaptation research task:
Students are put in to small groups and each group given an area of adaptations to research (desert animals; desert plants; arctic animals; deterring predators; extremophiles.)
Students fill in their area of their mindmap during the research.
Each group feeds back their research to the class. Students complete the rest of the mindmap whilst listening.
Plenary:
exam question on adaptations. |
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