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ADAPTATIONS - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Fins
    - - Move through water easily
        
        Reducing water resistance
    - - Modified limbs
  - - - Collect water from large area
  - - - Urinating very little and not sweating
      - Hump stores fat
    - - Needle like leaves
        
        Reduce water loss
- - - - Beaks
      - Claws
    - - Sharp teeth
        
        Tearng meat
      - Flat teeth
        
        Grinding plants
  - - - Carbon dioxide
    - - Ingest small organisms
- - - - Discourages predators
        
        By looking similar to other poisonous animals
        
        Poison/Venom
        
        Posion Dart frog
        
        Spikes/shells/scales
        
        Cactus
        
        Tortiose
        
        Porcupine
        
        Appearing big
        
        Puffer fish
        
        Threatened
    - - Blend into surroundings - Less noticeable
        
        Body shape
        
        Stick insect
        
        Leap frog
        
        Body covering
        
        Flounder fish
        
        Bird-dropping spider
        
        Counter shading
        
        Top
        
        Bottom
    - - Increase speed
        
        Swim faster
        
        Streamlined body shape
  - - - Deter predators
        
        Harder to attack animal in herd compared to animal alone :
    - - Until danger is gone
        
        To avoid being eaten up
- - - - Seed dispersal
        
        Prevent overcrowding
        
        Wind
        
        Depends on wind direction
        
        (away from parent)
        
        Splitting
        
        Scattered
        
        (near the parent)
        
        Water
        
        Washed up on shore
        
        (away from parent)
        
        Animals
        
        Randomly scattered
        
        (away from parent)
      - Pollination
  - - - Young
        
        Mammals & birds
        
        Take care of helpless young
        
        Eggs
        
        Protective shell
        
        Protect until young hatch
        
        Large numbers
        
        Increase the chances of survival
        
        New borns able to walk/swim immediately
        
        Avoid predators
      - Finding mates
        
        Secreting substance
        
        Scent
        
        Courting rituals
        
        Performs a dance
        
        Peacock
        
        Mating calls
        
        Male frog
        
        Brings a gift
        
        Dancing fly
- - - - Aquatic
        
        Cannot survive in deeper waters
        
        Light cannot be reached
    - - Have ways to reach out for sunlight
      - Large leaves/number of leaves
        
        Increase the surface area of chlorophyll
  - - - Find food
      - See their predators
      - Find mates
    - - Avoid predators
      - Avoid being dried up
- - - - Special organs
        
        Moist skin
        
        Frog
        
        Gills
        
        Fish
        
        Gill chambers
        
        Trap water
        
        Mud skipper
        
        Crab
    - - Air tubes
        
        Mosquito larvae
      - Lungs
        
        Mammals
        
        Land
        
        Elephants
        
        Humans
        
        Water
        
        Whale
        
        Seals
        
        Dolphins
        
        Dugong
        
        Birds
        
        Amphibians
        
        Frog
      - Air bubbles
        
        Water spider
        
        Diving beetle
      - Stomata
        
        Plants
- - - - Special characteristics
        
        Structural
        
        Physical trait
        
        Plants
        
        Dessert (Hot region?)
        
        Small leaves
        
        1 more item...
        
        Animals
        
        Cold region
        
        Thick fur
        
        1 more item...
        
        Behavioural
        
        How and organism acts/responds to stimuli
        
        Animals
        
        Gather together in large groups
        
        Defend against predators
        
        Plants
        
        Open flowers at night
        
        Nocturnal pollinators