Habitats around the world
Answers are for parents and teachers.
1
Walk round your home or school with a grown-up. Name one plant, one animal and one non-living thing you find in a habitat there, and say one need the animal meets.
Answers differ. Check that the need is food, water or shelter.
2
A zoo map has 12 animals: 4 polar, 5 from rainforests and the rest from grasslands. How many are from grasslands?
12 − 4 − 5 = 3 animals.
3
Write four sentences comparing a desert and a rainforest.
For example: Both have plants and animals. A rainforest has rain almost every day, but a desert has very little. A rainforest has tall trees. A camel would not live well in a rainforest.
4
Draw a Venn diagram for a polar habitat and a wetland, with two facts in each part.
Answers differ. For example: polar only – ice and snow; wetland only – turtles and floating plants; both – animals and plants.
5
A camel lives in the desert. Write how it could meet its need for food.
A camel meets its need for food by eating desert plants.