What is a habitat?
A place where a plant or animal lives.
Tell me about the forest and the desert.
Forest: Warm, sunny, diverse land habitat, many trees and plants.
Dessert: Dry, few plants, little rain.
Tell me the characteristics of the ocean.
The ocean is a large body of salt water.
Different plants and animals live in the ocean. (A lot of diversity)
Which habitat rains the least?
1) tundra
2) forest
3) wetland
1) tundra
What does habitat give?
Giving living things their basic needs.
Tell me about the grassland and the tundra.
Tundra: Cold, near the North Pole, with frozen soil, little rain, and little diversity.
Grassland: Called prairies, different types of grasses and bushes, can be cold or warm.
Tell me the characteristics of rivers and streams.
Fresh water Flows for long distances. Have a lot of diversity.
What kind of adaptation does a fish have to live in the water?
1) feet
2) webbed feet
3) gills
3) gills
What is diversity?
How many different plants and animals live in a place.
In which habitat can you find the Arctic Fox?
Arctic Tundra
Tell me about wetland.
That has both land and water.
Soil in a wetland is almost always wet.
Wetlands have a lot of diversity.
This animal's thick coats of hair offer protection from the scorching heat during the day and provide warmth when the temperatures drop at night. When food and water are available, camels can eat it in large quantities and store it as fat in their hump.
What type of habitat is your class most likely observing?
Dessert
What is adaptation?
Characteristics of a living thing that help to survive in its habitat.
Easier version: (Living things have special parts or ways that help them live in their habitat)
Bison have woolly fur that helps them stay warm. It can survive when it is warm or cold. Where does this animal mostly live?
A.desert
B.forest
C.prairie
D.tundra
C.prairie (grass land)
What is a marsh (1st pic) and a swamp (2nd pic)?
Marsh has plants that are like grasses.
Swamp has plants like trees.
A) arctic tundra
B) dessert
C) grassland
D) forest
D) forest
The habitats are the street and the forest.
Which habitat has more diversity?
Why?
The forest.
The forest has more basic needs like water, plants, and food.
The habitat is a grassland.
Which plant adaptation is best for this habitat?
A.flowers that can bloom in cold temperatures
B.roots that grow in frozen soil
C.roots that grow in wet soil
D. bushes and grasses can grow but not many trees can grow because of the weather
D. bushes and grasses can grow but not many trees can grow because of the weather
Compare the ocean and swamp.
Ocean: 1)Salt water, 2) a large amount of water, 3)more diversity
Swamp: 1) land and water 2) have plants like trees 3) less diversity than the ocean
What is the word that describes different plants and animals that live in a habitat?
Diversity