Exploring Habitats

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Objective

I can describe different types of habitats and the plants and animals that live there.

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Key concepts

3 concepts

  1. 1

    A habitat is a place where an animal lives and finds what it needs to survive.

  2. 2

    Animals need food, water, shelter, and space in their habitat.

  3. 3

    A food web shows how plants and animals are connected because they eat each other.

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Practice

5 questions

1

Animals need food, water, shelter, and space in their habitat to survive. True or False?

2

What is a food web?

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Exit ticket

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Name one animal that lives in the forest and what it eats.

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