Habitat Basics
What is a habitat?
The place where a living thing lives and gets what it needs.
This habitat has many trees and is home to animals like squirrels and deer.
Forest
Is a tree living or non-living?
Living
What do animals drink to survive?
Water
🐫 + ☀️ + 🏜️ — What habitat am I?
Desert
Name 3 things an animal needs from its habitat.
Food, water, shelter/space.
This habitat receives very little rain and can be extremely hot or cold.
Desert
Is a rock living or non-living?
What do animals need to eat to get energy?
Food
🐸 + 💧 + 🌿 — What habitat am I?
Pond/Wetland
What are the two main types of things found in a habitat?
Living and non-living things.
Frogs, cattails, ducks and insects are commonly found in this watery habitat.
Wetland
Non-living?
What does a habitat provide that can protect an animal from weather and predators?
Shelter
🦌 + 🌲 + 🐿️ — What habitat am I?
Forest
Give 2 non-living parts of a habitat.
E.g. water, sunlight, air, rocks, soil.
This cold habitat has frozen ground and very few trees.
Name two living things you might find in a pond habitat?
Frog, fish, tadpoles, plants, mosquitoes, etc.
Name three basic needs of an animal.
🐻❄️ + ❄️ + 🧊 — What habitat am I?
Artic
Why couldn't a polar bear naturally live in a hot desert?
Its needs are suited to a cold Arctic habitat.
What habitat contains salt water and animals such as whales, sharks and crabs?
Ocean/marine
Name two living AND two non-living things you could find in a forest.
Non-living: soil, rocks, dirt, water, etc.
If all the water disappeared from a pond, why would animals have trouble surviving there?
They would lose water and/or an important part of their habitat.
I have lots of water, plants growing in and around me, insects, frogs and birds. What habitat am I?
Wetland/Pond