Summary
Explores why living things can only survive where the resources they need actually exist, using the pineapple as the anchor example. Students learn how resource availability shapes where organisms live.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
- Why can't pineapples grow in the Arctic? What resources are they missing?
- What resources does your body need every day? What happens if even one is missing?
- Think of an animal that lives in the desert. What special traits help it survive with scarce resources?
- How do humans change environments to get resources they need?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: resource, availability, survive, habitat, organism.
Try it: Pick one animal from a biome (desert, rainforest, tundra). List the resources it needs and explain how that biome provides — or limits — each one.