Animal posters

Today you're going to continue planning your animals from last lesson, thinking about the structures that help them survive. Answer the following in your books, and remember you will need these next week!

1. What colour is your animal? How does this help it?
2. Does it gain or lose heat easily? Why is this?
3. Think about your animal's activity levels. Does it move quickly? What type of muscles does it need?
4. How does the oxygen your animals muscles need get into it's blood? Name one other place in the animal's body where diffusion occurs.
5. Draw a biomass pyramid containing your animal. Where does it fit in? What is the term for where it fits?                                                                        
6. Most living things are made from lots of carbon. What element makes up most of yours?  How does this benefit your animal?
7. Read about this lizard defending itself (a real story). Does your animal have any chemicals that help it stay alive?
8. Use this site to list five other adaptations of your animal. You should also explain how they help it:
9. Try this activity. Name one animal adapted to a desert environment:
10. Identify the organisms in this ecosystem, then place them into a food web: