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The pond is a habitat where frogs find water, food, and shelter.
What does Habitat mean?
A habitat is the place and conditions where a living thing normally lives and gets what it needs.
Dictionary definition
The place and conditions where a plant, animal, or other organism normally lives and finds what it needs; also, a usual setting or purpose-built living space in an otherwise difficult environment.
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Habitat in a sentence
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Cutting down the old trees reduced nesting habitat for the birds.
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The quiet library became her natural habitat whenever she wanted to research a new idea.
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Engineers tested a sealed habitat where researchers could live in the desert.
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Practice 1
Which description best explains a habitat?
A habitat provides the space and conditions in which an organism normally lives and meets its needs.
Practice 2
Which sentence uses habitat precisely?
The marsh supplies the place and resources the herons use for life processes.
Practice 3
A coral reef can be a ____ for a fish and part of a much larger marine ecosystem.
Habitat identifies the fish's living place; ecosystem emphasizes the interacting community and environment.
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WordHabitat.
Partnoun.
MeaningHabitat means A habitat is the place and conditions where a living thing normally lives and gets what it needs.
ExampleExample: The pond is a habitat where frogs find water, food, and shelter.
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- Ending
- tat
- Tip
- Put a little extra energy on hab.
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Synonyms
Words like Habitat
homeClose for the natural place where an organism lives, though habitat also includes needed conditions and resources.
natural environmentClose in ecology for the surroundings where an organism normally lives and grows.
Antonym review
Does Habitat have an opposite?
Habitat has no precise general antonym. An unsuitable environment may fail to support a species, but it is not the lexical opposite of habitat.
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Word family
Habitat word family
Base word
habitat
noun
habitats
The plural form for more than one habitat.
adjective
habitat-based
Describes work or decisions organized around habitat needs.
noun
microhabitat
A small, specific habitat within a larger area, such as the space under a log.
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Hint for students
Ask where the organism lives and whether that place supplies food, water, shelter, space, light, or other needed conditions.
Common mix-up
Do not treat habitat and ecosystem as exact synonyms. Habitat focuses on where an organism lives; ecosystem focuses on interactions across a community and its environment.
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Choose one local organism and make a four-box habitat card for food, water, shelter, and space. Add one sentence naming a change that would improve or damage that habitat.
Teacher prompt
Use the model sentence, "The fallen log is a damp habitat for insects and fungi." Ask which needs the log helps meet and why the whole forest is a broader ecosystem.
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