HABITATS

A HABITAT A habitat is a place where living things live: animals, plants, fungi, humans, microorganisms…

LIVING THINGS LIVE

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A habitat provides

FOOD, WATER,

SPACE

and SHELTER

to all the living things.

DESERT

CLIMATE

In the desert it is very HOT during the day. (40°-50°)

And really COLD at night. (-5°)

The soil is very SANDY and sometimes there are sandstorms.

Deserts are very DRY because it rains very little.

Not many plants or animals live here.

Plants and animals have adapted to survive with little water.

Most of desert animals get their water from the food they eat.

WHAT ANIMALS LIVE IN THE DESERT?

Scorpions, spiders, camels, dromedaries, lizards, snakes...

Many animals sleep during the day, because it is too hot, and are active at night.

They come out at night to eat

Many plants have thick leaves in the desert to retain water.

There are a lot of kind of cacti.

THE TUNDRA

CLIMATE

It is very cold and windy. It is freezing. (-30°C in winter 5°C in summer)

It rains very little.

There is snow and iceon the ground most of the year.

It is hard for plants to grow in the tundra.

There are no trees. Only a few plants grow in the summer.

There are six months of daylight

and six months of darkness

Animals have thick white fur to protect them from the cold and to camouflage.

The Arctic Tundra

The Antarctic Tundra

Animals in the Arctic

Caribou Bowhead whale

BelugaMusk oxen

Polar bear

Snowy owl

Arctic wolf

Arctic fox

Animals in the Arctic

Animals in the Antarctic

Weddell seal

Southern elephant seal

Leopard sealPenguins

Animals in the Antarctic

The Blue whale (length up to 30 m)

Orca (or killer whale) (length up to 8 m)

Humpback whale (length up to 15 m)

The grassland

Glasslands are areas where the vegetation is

dominated by grasses and

some flowers that grow

among the

grasses.

Climate

Temperate grasslands have warm and humid summers (±15°C) and cool and dry winters (±5°C).

Grasslands animals

Ant Bison Grasshopper

Prairie dog Fox Grey wolf

Grasslands animals

Skunk

Hare

Rabbit

Mouse

Earth worm

THE SAVANNAH

CLIMATE

It is quite hot during the day

and warm at night.

It rains very little

and it only rains in the summer.

SUMMER

There are only two seasons in the savannah:

there is a wet summer and a dry winter.

It is difficult for animals

to find water in winter.

There are few trees and the plants are mainly grasses.

Baobab

Animals in the Savannah

Animals in the savannah

Hyena

Elephant

Zebras

Cheetah

Animals in the savannah

Oryx

Flamingos

Rhino

The Forest

CLIMATE

In a forest it is warm and cool in summer (±15°C)

And cold in winter (±5°C)

Forests are large areas rich in vegetation, especially tall trees and grass.

There are different types of evergreen and deciduous trees, bushes and grasses.

Forest Plants

Fir tree

Pine tree

Maple tree

Maple tree leaves on the ground

Bush and grasses

When autumn arrives the leaves turn redred, orangeorange and yellowyellow.

Once winter comes the trees lose their leaves.

In the forest there are different ANIMALS:Foxes, mice, owls, birds, rabbits, snails, bears…

Forest animals

There are a lot of mushrooms in the forest.

Mushrooms absorb nutrients from dead matter.

Fungi

RAINFORESTS or JUNGLES

CLIMATE They are very wet because it rains almost every day.

They are very warm (about 20-30°C)

They have very dense vegetation : very tall trees and many plants on the ground.

Many types of trees, flowers, vines, carnivorous plants, lianas, and very tall trees live here.

Animals in the jungle.

Animals in the jungle.

Parrots

Butterfly

Panther

Toucan

Snake (Python)

Frog

Orangutans

Animals in the jungle.

Gorillas

Insects Monkeys

OCEANS AND SEAS

Oceans and seas are saltwater habitats.

They cover about 70% of the Earth´s surface.

Dolphin, whales, seals…

Many fish and some mammals live here.

There are invertebrate animals too

Jellyfish

Starfish

Anemones

Zooplankton

Many plants live in the ocean

Seagrasses

Seaweds

Phytoplankton

RIVERS

Rivers are streams of running water flowing towards an ocean, a lake or another river.

A lake is a body of water that is surrounded by land.There are millions of lakes in the word.

The most important rivers in Spain

There are thousands of rivers throughout the world.

The most important rivers are:Amazon River (The largest)

Nile River (The longest: 6,516 kilometers long)

Mississippi River (The largest in North America)

Many animals live in and around the rivers and lakes.

The river banks are habitats for mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians and insects.

PONDS

A pond is a small area of fresh water.

It doesn’t have moving water.

In a pond some animals live in the water (fish, crayfish, tadpoles, etc.), some live above the water (ducks, insects, etc.), and others live in the area surrounding the pond (raccoons, earthworms, etc.).

Fish, frogs , turtles , birds , dragonflies and mosquitoes.

The most common animals in and near the pond are:

Many plants grow in and around a pond.

Adaptacións de animaisOs animais teñen que adaptarse a o seu

habitat para sobrevivir

Hay 2 tipos de adaptacións

Adaptacións físicas

Adaptacións de comportamento

Adaptacións físicasAlgúns animais usan o seu corpo para camuflarse dos depredadores e para cazar.

Adaptacións de comportamento

Os animais cambian o seu comportamento para sobrevivir.Por exemplo o oso inverna por que ve que non ten comida.

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AUTORES: Alumnos de 4ºB