A habitat provides living things with food, shelter, and everything they need to survive. It includes the whole surrounding area where an animal or plant lives. Many plants and animals are specially adapted to their particular habitat through features like camouflage, storage organs, insulation, or body shapes that suit the environment. Habitats meet an organism's needs and allow plants and animals to help each other by providing food, shelter, reproduction sites, and other functions.

1. Habitats

2. What is a habitat ?

3.  A habitat is the place where living things live.
 It is more than just a home it includes the
whole surrounding area.
 The habitat provides the animal or plant with
food or shelter.

4. People and their habitats
People can live all over the
world.

5. We can do this
because we are able
to build homes for
different conditions.

6. Also we can change our clothes
to best suit the temperature
around us.
Animal skin and fur
White clothes act as insulators and
reflect the heat keep heat in.

7. Animals and plants
 Most plants and animals are specially adapted
to survive in a particular habitat.
 They have developed special features to suit
the demands of their environment.
 This is called adaption.

8. Some examples of
adaption

9. All birds have similar
characteristics.
But many water
birds have features
that are different Long legs are good for wading
from those birds live
on land.
Webbed
feet for
swimming These wings act as flippers

10. Some animals are
camouflaged to blend in This lion blends in well
with their surroundings. with the grassy
background.
This keeps them safe as it
is more difficult for other
animals to see them or
catch them for food.
These zebra could This lizards skin is so
easily be mistaken similar to the rock
for bushes from colour.
a distance.

11. Aquatic animals have
streamlined bodies
to move more easliy
in the water.

12. Camels store water in their
These animals have
humps. adapted to live in
the hot climate of
the desert.
Ostriches have
Snakes glide across the hot long eyelashes to
sands and can shed their skin keep out the sand.

13. These animals have Layers of fat keep the
adapted to be more seals body warm, and small
suited to cold ears stop heat loss.
temperatures.
Polar bears are kept warm by
their body fat.
Deer have a
warm layer
of fur.

14. Even plants have
adapted to their
habitats.
The cactus has fleshy stems
that store water.
Dandelions seeds are
easily dispersed.
The water provides support for this lily
as it has less developed roots to hold it
in place.

15. Animals and plants help each other
Plants and animals depend on each Protection
other for a wide variety of things.
Nests to reproduce
Food
Shelter Gas exchange