Arctic Ocean Animals Adaptations
Allocate each group one of the animals - polar bear snow fox and reindeer.
Arctic ocean animals adaptations. Gray whales Eschrichtius robustus migrate thousands of kilometers every year as they swim from the cold Arctic Ocean in summer to the warm waters off the coast of Mexico to winter. Arctic fox - ermine - lemming - arctic hare. Common oceanic animal adaptations include gills special breathing organs used by some oceanic animals like fish and crabs.
Their thick fur coats have hollow hairs. These animals adapt to permanently low temperatures such as those found in the Arctic by having low metabolic rates. These adaptations enable the organism to regulate their bodily functions such as breathing and temperature and perform special functions like excreting chemicals as a defence mechanism.
Arctic animals have special adaptations that allow them to survive on the frozen tundra in this unique region of the world. Ocean animals have unique adaptations depending on what ocean habitat they. Diving physiology physiological and anatomical - Whales and seals have a number of adaptations that allow them to dive deep beneath the sea for extended time periods narwhals can dive to 1500m 4900 feet and stay submerged for up to 25 minutes.
This means that organisms in cold waters live and work at a lower speed than organisms in warmer waters. Sharks are very good at finding food. Plants with low growing small compact forms are the most successful in the arcticmosses and lichens grasses and low bushes are good examples.
Blubber is a thick fatty tissue just under the skin of many arctic. Artic foxes eat a wide range of other small animals including arctic hares birds and bird eggs rodents fish and seals. The most amazing shark adaptation is called ampullae of lorenzini.
The Beaufort and Chukchi Seas the Arctic waters north of Alaska are sometimes known as. Arctic ground squirrel - birds - whales - harp seal - walrus. Antarctic animal adaptations penguins seals krill whales.