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What is a Habitat?
What is a Habitat?
A habitat is a place where an organism makes its home. A habitat meets all the environmental conditions an organism needs to survive. For an animal, that means everything it needs to find and gather food, select a mate, and successfully reproduce.
The Main Components of a Successful Habitat
The Main Components of a Successful Habitat
The main components of a habitat are shelter, water, food, and space. A habitat is said to have a suitable arrangement when it has the correct amount of all of these. Sometimes, a habitat can meet some components of a suitable arrangement, but not all.
For example, a habitat for a puma could have the right amount of food, water, shelter and space.
Food: deer, porcupine, rabbits, and rodents
Water: A lake, river, or spring
Shelter: Trees or dens on the forest floor
Space: The puma habitat would not have a suitable arrangement, however, if it lacks enough space for this large predator to establish its own territory. An animal might lose this component of habitat (Space) when humans start building homes and businesses, pushing an animal into an area too small for it to survive.
Click View - Animal House Documentary (45minutes)
Documentary Information
Sir David Attenborough tells the stories of the world's best animal architects. There are house-proud bower birds, who only find a mate if they decorate their homes perfectly. There are hornets, who build electric central heating systems, and the star-nosed mole, whose house is designed so well that worms, his favourite meal, literally drop in for dinner. From larders to nurseries and from high-rises to subway systems, Attenborough shows that the animal architects have designed it long before humans
Habitat Video Workseet.docxHabitat Fact Sheet:
Habitat Fact Sheet:
Pop-out the Habitat Fact Sheet to the right and choose your own habitat to complete this fact sheet on. You will need to add all the facts you find on your habitat and include your own diagrams.
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