Habitats 1
The natural home of a plant or animal
What is a habitat?
A community of living things in a habitat that rely on each other
What is an ecosystem?
Many kinds of plants and animals in a habitat
What is diversity?
A trait or feature of a living thing that helps it survive in its habitat
What is adaptation?
A group of different species in the same habitat that interact with each other
What is a community?
What is an adaptation?
Animals that eat only plants
What are herbivores?
A dry area that receives very little rain
What is a desert?
A tall, dense jungle habitat that gets high amounts of rain
What is a rainforest?
A very cold, flat habitat near the North Pole
What is a tundra?
A habitat in a very small area such as under a log
What is a microhabitat?
A large, open area of land covered with mostly grass
What is a grassland?
A habitat found in a city surrounded by buildings and busy roads
What is an urban habitat?
An animal that hunts other animals for food.
What is a predator?
A moving body of water that feeds into an ocean, lake, or another river
What is a river?
What do we call the removal of forests?
What is deforestation?
A land habitat that is often covered with water
What is a wetland?
The largest habitat on earth
What is the ocean?
A large habitat covered with mostly trees
What is a forest?
A habitat provides these four basic needs for plants and animals to survive
What is food, water, shelter, and space?
A scientist who discovered the theory of evolution
Who is Charles Darwin?
An individual plant or animal
What is an organism?
Animals that eat only meat
What are carnivores?
An animal that lives in a wetland habitat and begins it's life as a tadpole.
What is a frog?
30 million species of plants and animals live in this habitat.
What is the rainforest?