Habitat

Chapter 3
1- Why a fish cannot live on land?
Ans: Because fish have no lungs to breath in air. They have
gills to get necessary oxygen from the water.
2- Why a person cannot live underwater?
Ans: Since humans do not have gills, we cannot extract
oxygen from water.
3- Define habitat.
Ans: The place where an organism live is called its habitat.
Each kind of living organism has adaptations that help it to
live in a particular habitat.
4- Define food chain.
Ans: A food chain explains which organism eats another
organism in the environment.
5- Define producers and consumers.
Ans: A producer is a living thing that makes its own food from sunlight,
air, and soil. Plants are producers and always come first in the food chain.
A consumer is a living thing that cannot make its own food. Consumers
get their energy by eating food. All animals are consumers.
6- Prehistoric hunters killed and ate mammoths. Mammoths ate grass.
Draw a food chain to show how prehistoric hunters got energy from
mammoths.
Ans:
7- Why did prehistoric hunters not wipe out (destroy) the populations of animals and
plants that they used for food?
Ans: So they have food for the future.
8- Write a list of three crops that are grown in the area where you live.
Ans: Rice, wheat, corn, sugarcane
9- Write a list of three animals that are kept for food where you live.
Ans: Camels, goats, cows, hens etc.
10- Describe one way in which farming has a negative effect on a food
chain.
Ans: When land is cleared to grow crops to keep animals, most of the
plants and animals that used to live there can no longer survive. Their
habitat and their food supply is destroyed.
11- Describe one way in which farming has a positive effect on a food chain.
Ans: Some animals can eat the crops that farmers grow. They may have even more food than
the land was cleared.

12- If the Earth gets warmer, some of

the ice at the North Pole and South
Pole will melt. Predict how will this
affect sea level.
Ans: Sea level will rise and will cause
floods on the coastal areas, change in
the habitat of fish, birds and plants,
agricultural soil and freshwater will be
contaminated with the salt and it will
cause more dangerous hurricanes and
typhoons.
13- Trees use carbon dioxide to make food.
Explain how cutting down trees or burning
them will affect the amount of carbon dioxide
in the atmosphere?
Ans: Too much carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere stops heat escaping from the
Earth. This makes the Earth warmer.
14- What causes acid rain? And what are it
effects?
Ans: Sulfur dioxide dissolved in the rain water
produces acid rain. Acid rain harm trees and
animals that live in lakes and rivers.
15- Where is Ozone layer?
Ans: Ozone is a gas. There is a layer of ozone
high up in the atmosphere. Ozone layer is
about 25 kilometers above the ground.