Life in Habitats

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Objective

I can describe how different plants and animals live together in a habitat.

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Warm-up video

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Key concepts

3 concepts

  1. 1

    A habitat is the area where an animal lives, and animals rely on the living and non-living things around them to survive.

  2. 2

    A food web is a tangled system that includes every plant and animal in a habitat.

  3. 3

    Food webs and the ecosystems that support them look different in different parts of the world, depending on the habitat conditions.

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Practice

7 questions

1

What are the four things that animals need in their habitat to survive?

2

What is a food web?

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Exit ticket

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Describe one example of how plants and animals live together in the Arctic habitat, as explained in the video.

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