How Plants Adapt To A Desert Environment

Surviving the desert requires each of us to make adaptations.  What is an adaptation?  It's how we adjust how we live to survive in our environment.  When summer arrives in Tucson, people will change the kind of clothes they wear, drink more water, go for a swim, or look for shade.  Plants make changes too - some shed their leaves, some store water, others hide out until water arrives.  Come along with Butterfly as she shows us all kinds of desert plants and how they adapt to survive in the desert.

Okay!  Let's do two activities!

See if you can locate plants in your yard and what adaptations they have made to survive in their environment.

Animal Evidence Reveals Our Hidden Neighbors

Animal evidence is all around us.  This video will show you animal evidence that may often go overlooked - evidence you can find in your backyard, in the alley behind your house, at a park, or on a walk around your neighborhood.  Join Butterfly as we uncover evidence of all kinds of Sonoran Desert animals, then continue to the next activity!

Let's go find some animal evidence!