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Season 1 · Episode 32

Hot/Cold: Animal and Plant Adaptations

0.030mJanuary 22, 1980

The desert and polar regions demonstrate how plants and animals react to extreme heat or cold. The Bloodhound Gang unlocks ""The Case of the Secret Message.""

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Episodes

Episode 1Noisy/Quiet: Production & Processing of Sound
Episode 2Noisy/Quiet: The Ear
Episode 3Noisy/Quiet: How People & Animals Use Sound
Episode 4Noisy/Quiet: Music
Episode 5Noisy/Quiet: Range of Vibration
Episode 6Forces and Motion
Episode 7Forces and Fields
Episode 8Forces: Buoyancy and Gravity
Episode 9Forces and Machines
Episode 10Forces: A Spectacle of Forces
Episode 11Growth/Decay: Sex and Seeds
Episode 12Growth/Decay: Human Growth
Episode 13Growth/Decay: Decay
Episode 14Growth/Decay: Human Cultures/Land Forms
Episode 15Growth/Decay: Cycles Upon Cycles
Episode 16Fast/Slow: Speed Up, Slow Down
Episode 17Fast/Slow: Rhythms of Nature
Episode 18Fast/Slow: Lifetimes
Episode 19Fast/Slow: Speed and Racing
Episode 20Fast/Slow: Time and Time Again
Episode 21Communication: Human Communication
Episode 22Communication: Animal Communication
Episode 23Communication: Machinery of Communication
Episode 24Communication with Other Species
Episode 25Communication: Feedback
Episode 26Food/Fuel: Animal Food
Episode 27Food/Fuel: Human Food
Episode 28Food/Fuel: Growing and Processing Food
Episode 29Food/Fuel: Fueling Machines
Episode 30Food/Fuel: The Sun Makes Everything Go
Episode 31Hot/Cold: People's Temperatures
Episode 32Hot/Cold: Animal and Plant Adaptations
Episode 33Hot/Cold: How Hot or Cold Can It Get?
Episode 34Hot/Cold: Heat and Work
Episode 35Hot/Cold: Temperatures on Earth/In Space
Episode 36Light/Dark: The Sun
Episode 38Light/Dark: Electromagnetic Spectrum
Episode 39Light/Dark: The Eye
Episode 40Light/Dark: Light Sources
Episode 41Near/Far: Seeing Isn't Always Believing
Episode 42Near/Far: Mapping and Navigating Near Home
Episode 43Near/Far: Mapping and Navigating Over Earth
Episode 44Near/Far: Space Travel
Episode 45Near/Far: Knowing Where You Are
Episode 46Order/Disorder: Regular Patterns
Episode 47Order/Disorder: The Body â€“ An Ordered System
Episode 48Order/Disorder: Social Order
Episode 49Order/Disorder: Disordered
Episode 50Order/Disorder: Sum of Its Parts
Episode 51Surfaces: Protection
Episode 52Surfaces: Shapes and Functions at the Surface
Episode 53Surfaces: Surface Tension and Bubbles
Episode 54Surfaces: Surface of the Earth
Episode 55Surfaces: The Atmosphere
Episode 56Big/Small: Animal Sizes/Scaling
Episode 57Big/Small: Animal Habitats
Episode 58Big/Small: Dinoaurs
Episode 59Big/Small: Volume & Efficiency
Episode 60Big/Small: How Big is Big?
Episode 61Crowded/Uncrowded: Human Crowding
Episode 62Crowded/Uncrowded: Optimum Populations in Nature
Episode 63Crowded/Uncrowded: Contrasts in Densities of Materials
Episode 64Crowded/Uncrowded: Down Among the Atoms (Liquids & Solids)
Episode 65Crowded/Uncrowded: Human Survival/Controlling Densities