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 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?
Relying on one another for basic needs like food and shelter
What is interdependent?
A group of organisms living in the same place
What is population?
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?
A pool of salt water left after high tide
What is a tide pool?
A moving body of water that feeds into an ocean, lake, or another river
What is a river?
A small, narrow river
What is a stream?
A land habitat that is often covered with water
What is a wetland?
An underwater ecosystem of colonies of coral
What is a coral reef?
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 studies how human actions affect living things and their habitats
What is ecologists?
An individual plant or animal
What is an organism?
A wetland with mostly grassy plants
What is a marsh?
A wetland with mostly trees
What is a swamp?
30 million species of plants and animals live in this habitat.
What is the rainforest?