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Animal Habitats
vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| habitat | place where an animal lives and finds what it needs to survive |
| environment | everything that is all around you |
| desert | a dry, extremely hot environment that receives very little rain and where very few plants or animals can survive |
| tropical rain forest | a very wet and humid environment where the temperature stays the same all year round and where hundreds and thousands of animals and plants are found |
| woodlands forest | an environment that has many, many trees and has different seasons throughout the year, providing a place for many different kinds of animals of all different sizes to survive |
| pond | a small, freshwater, contained (still) environment for freshwater fish, frogs, turtles etc. and plants like lily pads, cattails, and tall grasses and weeds |
| ocean | an immense saltwater environment that is contained and provides a home to thousands of different fish, mammals, and plants |
| river | a moving water environment that can have either salt water or fresh water |
| lake | a contained water environment having either salt water or fresh water |
| Arctic | an extremely cold environment with lots of ice and snow where very few animals and almost no plants can survive |