School grounds and the immediate locality of the school will provide the initial resource. The local environment also needs to be compared to other localities visited during fieldwork and more distant localities which can only be studied using secondary source material. A habitat is where an organism lives. The conditions which exist in the habitat make up the environment.
Environmental conditions affect the survival and behaviour of plants and animals.
These include physical conditions and the other living things that are present. Some conditions change on a daily basis , eg light intensity and temperature, wheras others change with the seasons, eg temperature, wind and rainfall. A variety of organisms can live in most habitats because each tends to exploit different opportunities and solve different problems in order to survive. To do this effectively, organisms are specialized in their body structure, in their behaviour or both. This specialization is called adaptation .