Summary
Explores what makes a habitat suitable for a particular organism — food, water, shelter, and space — and explains that an organism can only survive where all four of its needs are reliably met.
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Discussion questions
Discussion
- What four things must a habitat provide for an organism?
- Why can a grizzly bear survive in a forest but not in a city — even though a city has food?
- What happens when a habitat loses one of the four key ingredients?
- Can humans change a habitat to make it suitable for an organism that did not live there before? Give an example.
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: habitat, food, water, shelter, space, organism, survive.
Try it: Pick any animal. Write its habitat requirements: what food does it need, what water source, what shelter type, and how much space? Then identify one real habitat that provides all four.