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🏞️ Words for Habitats

A habitat is the home where a plant or animal lives. Learn the words for forests, deserts, ponds, oceans, and icy lands.

3
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~15 min
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🔬 Science
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Ages 6–12
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What you’ll learn

  1. What Is a Habitat?Learn that a habitat is the natural home where a plant or animal finds food, water, and shelter.A habitat is the natural home of a plant or animal, where it can find everything it needs to live. Different animals need different habitats, so a camel could not live in the sea and a fish could not live in the desert.
  2. Land HabitatsLearn the words for woodland, desert, rainforest, and grassland habitats.Land habitats include woodlands full of trees, hot dry deserts, warm wet rainforests, and wide open grasslands. Each one is a different kind of home with its own plants and animals.
  3. Water and Icy HabitatsLearn the words for pond, ocean, and polar habitats and sort habitats into land and water.Water and icy habitats include the freshwater pond, the huge salty ocean, and the frozen polar lands. Ponds and oceans are water habitats, while deserts, woodlands, and rainforests are land habitats.

Questions this course answers

What is a habitat?

A habitat is the natural home where a plant or animal lives and finds what it needs.

Which words best describe a desert habitat?

A desert is a hot, dry habitat where very little rain falls.

Which habitat is warm, wet, and home to more kinds of animals than almost anywhere else?

The rainforest is warm and wet and holds an amazing number of different plants and animals.

Which of these is a water habitat?

A pond is a water habitat, a small body of fresh water where frogs and fish live.

How do animals in the polar habitat stay warm?

Polar animals like polar bears and seals have thick fur or fat to keep warm in the ice and snow.

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