AS 91190 · 4 credits · Internal
Extreme environments
Investigate how organisms survive in an extreme environment
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This standard asks you to investigate how living organisms (including humans) manage to survive in really harsh environments like deep oceans, extreme temperatures, or outer space. You'll need to find information about an extreme environment, explain why organisms need special adaptations or modifications to survive there, and describe how those adaptations actually help them cope with those conditions. You'll also need to keep track of where your information came from.
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- ·Select and gather information about an extreme environment and the organisms that live there
- ·Identify the harsh conditions of the extreme environment that make survival difficult
- ·Describe specific biological adaptations or technological modifications that organisms use to survive
- ·Explain how those adaptations work to protect the organism against the extreme conditions
- ·Record and reference all the sources of information you used in a traceable format
You describe why an organism needs special adaptations for the extreme environment and explain how those adaptations help it survive there.
You link the specific environmental conditions directly to the adaptations, and explain in detail how those adaptations allow the organism to function in that harsh environment.