Arid
Making the best of it
Our bodies are sixty percent water! How many litres does yours contain? Find out here in this zone! It’s no wonder we can’t live without water. Other animals depend on water to live too, even if the places they inhabit are bone dry. To survive they gather water in all kinds of clever ways. These extremely arid areas are also home to plants, which are unable to move to find their water!
Use the mist machine to copy the tricks of the desert beetle. The camel, the ship of the desert, can guzzle hundreds of litres of water in a few minutes. Can you quench its thirst? And how does the tiny gerbil survive in the desert with so little water?
- Fact file 1: the Gerbil
- Fact file 2: the Camel
