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Habitats SEE ALSO

▸ ▸ Coral reefs p.74
▸ ▸ Deserts p.78
A habitat is the place a plant or animal lives. Habitats ▸ ▸ Forests p.109
around the world have different temperatures and ▸ ▸ Grasslands p.124
landscapes. Animals and plants have certain features ▸ ▸ Polar habitats

that allow them to survive in their habitats. p.197
▸ ▸ Seashores p.220

Tundra Polar regions Coniferous
This cold habitat Very few plants forest
has very few and animals This habitat is
trees, plants can survive full of coniferous
are small, and in the freezing trees, which
animals often temperatures keep their
move away of this icy habitat. needlelike leaves
after the short all year round.
summer.

Tropical rain forests
cover 7 percent
of Earth, but are home
to more than half
the world’s plants
and animals.

Desert
Rocks and sand cover
this very dry habitat.
Animals and plants
have to be able to
survive with very
little water.

Rain forest Grassland Deciduous forest Ocean
Trees grow quickly in this Grasslands have more rain This habitat has four This saltwater habitat
warm, rainy habitat. They than deserts, but not enough seasons. The trees drop covers 70 percent of
provide food and homes for for many trees to grow. Most their leaves in autumn and Earth’s surface. Some
thousands of different animals. animals here eat grass. grow them again in spring. animals live deep down.
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