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What affects a life cycle?

The answer is lots of things!

 

Here is a short list for you to think about - 

 

  • Predators or enemies

  • Lack of food and water - all living things need access to food and water.

  • Lack of sunlight - even humans need sunlight to survive!

  • Environmental changes - weather changes such as storms, floods or drought

  • Fire - some plants require fire to help release their seeds to regenerate. 

  • Pollution - this lowers the quality of our air.

  • Loss of habitat

 

 

Left: A Banksiaseed needs fire to help open the seeds ready for germination. 

Keep on thinking!

In class we will discuss how life cycles can overlap. Have a think about how you think one life cycle can affect another. Such as, how could the human life cycle affect a cow's life cycle?

Right: An example of pollution affecting our air quality. 

Burnt banksia [image]. (2012). Retrieved from http://jgpausas.blogs.uv.es/2011/03/18/australia-born-to-burn/

Kate Mason. (2014). 

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