Habitats
True or false? A habitat is a place.
True!
Give an example of a living thing.
Answers may vary: people, plants, and animals.
Habitat
The place where an animal or plant lives and gets what it needs.
What animal reserve are we studying within the Broadleaf Forest Habitat?
The Bengal Tiger Reserve
What sense should you never use when observing a habitat?
True or False: The Broadleaf Forest is an example of a habitat.
True!
True or false - a car is a living thing. Why?
False - a car doesn't require food, water, air, sunlight, or shelter to continue working.
Observe
To use any of the five senses to gather information about something. To notice.
In what country is the specific habitat that we are studying - the Broadleaf Forest - located?
India
What are the five senses you can use to observe things?
Sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste
Which habitat is extremely cold and provides shelter to animals like polar bears and penguins?
The Artic
Give an example of a non-living thing.
Answers may vary.
Investigate
To try to learn more about something.
What does the green symbol on the Map of the Sample Study Site represent?
Chalta Trees
Name three ways the little girl in "My Nature Notebook" observed her habitat.
1. Drew pictures of what she saw
2. Recorded (wrote) her observations down in her notebook
3. Measured the length of plants in the habitat
4. Sectioned off a small area with sticks and strings and returned to it every month
Give three examples of habitats that we've talked about so far.
Desert; Grasslands; Ocean; Artic; Forest
What does an animal need to survive?
Air, water, food, shelter.
Purpose
Reason/why
We will be acting as plant scientists in the Bengal Reserve. What do plant scientist try to do?
Plant scientists try to answer questions about plants in the places where they live.
True or false? You can observe a small section of a habitat over a long period of time? Give an example.
True - the little girl in the story, "My Nature Notebook" used string and sticks to mark off an area in her backyard and observe it over 5 months.
What is a habitat?
A habitat is a place where an animal or plant lives and gets what it needs.
What does a plant need to survive?
Needs
The things plants and animals need to survive - food, water, shelter, air, sunlight
What does the lead scientist in the Bengal Tiger reserve think is changing?
The trees
What senses did the little girl use to observe the dead bird/soil and the squirrel clicking noises in the forest habitat? (2 answers)
Sense of smell and sense of hearing