How do physical conditions affect the survival of living things?

Look at the guiding question at the top of the page, use it to guide your discussions and thinking.

Choose one of these slide shows to watch.

Make notes as you read, look and discuss the information and the images in the slide show.

• What are all the living things that you can see in the slide show?
• Are animals the only living things?
• What kind of environment (habitat) do the living things need to survive in?
• Where do the plants and animals get their food, water and energy from?
• How is this environment different to the ones around Guyra and Armidale?
• Why are they different?
• What adaptions have the living things developed in order to survive in a particular environment?
• What adaptions would you have to make to live in one of these extreme environments?

Create a poster to show what you now know about “How physical conditions affect the survival of living things”