Unit 3 Habitats

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Q1. What is a habitat?
The place where different living things can live and they can get
their food from there.
Q2. What does it mean if a habitat has a high diversity?
It means that there are different kinds of living things living
over there.
Q3. Why does a rain forest habitat have higher diversity
than a desert habitat?
There is more water and plants in rain forest, it provides more
food for animals and many places for them to live.
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Q1. Option (b).
Q2. Option (c).
Q4. Why is diversity low in desert habitat?
Desert is very dry and hot all year round. With not much water
few plants and animals can live in deserts.
Q5.
Habitat and Description Diversity
animals living
there.
Tropical rain Wet and warm, High, home to
forest: gets lots of rain more than half of
Many large and and sunlight. Earth’s land
small mammals, animals.
snakes, frogs, and
birds.
Temperate forest: Gets enough High diversity.
Squirrels, racoons, sunlight and rain.
bears and deer.
Deserts: snakes, Very hot and dry, Low diversity
lizards, camels. scanty rain.
Tundra: polar Cold, windy, dry. Low diversity
bears, reindeer, Treeless plain.
foxes, and hares.
Savanna: Tropical grassland, High diversity.
elephants, giraffes, Hot and dry
zebras, lions.
Lakes and ponds: Freshwater closed High diversity
turtles, frogs, habitats
birds, insects,
lizards, and snakes.
Rivers and Fresh water High diversity
streams: Fish, habitats, but water
reptiles, mammals, is moving.
and birds.
Wetlands: Could be salt water High diversity
Many insects, or a freshwater
amphibians, habitat.
reptiles, and Flooded with water
mammals. most of the time.
Ocean: Large body of salt High diversity.
Dolphins, whales, water, could be
turtles, sharks, and cold could be warm
many others.