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Adaptation and Habitat In the fIlm hABItAt fActs… earth reveals a breathtaking vision of the • a habitat is an environment that provides planet’s habitats and makes it possible to truly an organism – plant or animal – with the appreciate just how extreme the contrasts conditions it needs to live are between the environments the planet’s • all living organisms are adapted to the animals call home. The Polar bear mother and habitat in which they live her cubs emerge from the crisp, white pristine snow of the Arctic into a world of ice cliffs and frozen ocean as far as the eye can see. Thousands of miles south, the Humpback whale gently supports her calf in the still and shallow sunlit waters of the tropics. The African elephant and her calf traverse a desert landscape of parched vegetation and cracking sun-baked earth as they cross the Kalahari, enveloped in billowing clouds of dust. These places on Earth’s surface could not be more different, and each of them is inhabited by one of Earth’s great mammals. earth – Educator’s Guide 8 adaptation and habitat the polar bear lIfe In A colD clImAte On average, the temperature in the Arctic polAr BeAr fActs … winter drops to -29°F (-34°C). If a Polar bear is • found throughout the Arctic on ice-covered to survive it has to be able to keep warm. The waters from Canada, to Norway, parts of black tip of its nose gives a clue to one of its the USA, Russia and Greenland