Arctic Ocean Animals Adaptations
Layers of blubber protect the walruses when they swim in the freezing arctic seas and when they lie out on the ice in the bitter cold wind.
Arctic ocean animals adaptations. Habitats and the environment. Ocean literacy involves understanding among other things that the ocean supports a great diversity of life and ecosystems and that the ocean and humans are inextricably interconnected. Camels long leg eyelids hump are all examples of adaptation.
Blubber and Ice Animals that live in the Arctic region Arctic Ocean parts of Canada Russia Alaska and some Nordic Countries are known as Arctic animals. They are adapted this way not so much to conserve heat as animals do but to conserve water. Artic foxes eat a wide range of other small animals including arctic hares birds and bird eggs rodents fish and seals.
ANIMALS living on LAND. Ask students for other examples of each type of adaptation. For marine life the Arctic Ocean is a unique place to live.
The shape of a birds beak helps them to eat food as well as make nests. Animals that can survive in the Arctic Ocean are adapted for this. Animals depend on their physical structure to help them find and eat food to build shelters to protect from predators and to reproduce.
Plants called succulents have adapted to this climate by storing water in their short thick stems and leaves. The arctic ocean animals have thick layers of blubber to keep them warm in the frigid water. Sharks are very good at finding food.
Arctic ground squirrel - birds - whales - harp seal - walrus. This lesson explores Reader required using the habitat of the Beaufort Sea and other Arctic. One of the special adaptations is BLUBBER.