adaptations

• In order for any organism to survive, it must be adapted to its environment.
• Structural adaptations are physical features that we see.

  • For example, an organisms shape or colour.
• Behavioural adaptations are the way an organism behaves or acts.

  • For example, elephants flapping their ears to spray themselves with water in order to cool down.

  This is a behavioural adaptation to the hot environment they live in.
• Functional adaptations are the processes inside an organism.

  • For example, their metabolism or their reproductive system.
• Examples of functional adaptations are desert animals.

  • For example, camels produce very little sweat and they accumulate lots of fat in their humps to break down later in order to release water.
• Extremophiles are microorganisms (such as bacteria or archaea) that are adapted to live in an extreme environment.

  • For example, living in high temperatures or high salt concentrations.