Practice identifying forest, desert, ocean, and pond habitats and describing how living things meet their needs there.
Read each problem carefully. Write your answer in complete sentences when you can.
Exploring where plants and animals live
Science - Grade 2-3
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A habitat is the place where a plant or animal lives. Name one thing a habitat must provide for animals.
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Look at a forest habitat. Name two living things you might find there.
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Which habitat is usually very dry and has plants like cactus: forest, desert, ocean, or pond?
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Explain one way a cactus is adapted to live in the desert.
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Name two animals that could live in an ocean habitat.
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Why do fish have gills?
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A frog, a dragonfly, cattails, and algae are found near still water. Which habitat is this most likely: forest, desert, ocean, or pond?
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How is an ocean different from a pond?
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Draw a line in your mind from each animal to its best habitat: camel, squirrel, clownfish, frog. Write the habitat for each animal.
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A forest has many trees. How do trees help animals in a forest habitat?
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Some desert animals sleep during the day and come out at night. Why might this help them survive?
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Which habitat has salty water and very large areas for plants and animals to live?
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Choose one pond plant or animal and explain how it uses the pond habitat.
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Sort these items into living and nonliving parts of a habitat: rock, tree, water, rabbit, sand, fish.
- 15
Pick one habitat: forest, desert, ocean, or pond. Write one sentence telling what it is like and one sentence naming an animal that lives there.