Habitats and Animals

1. Habitats and Animals By:Taylor Burnett

2. Habitats • Ahabitatis the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism. • A habitat is going to be the place where that organism gets the necessities that it needs like food, shelter, space, and an area that suits them well.

3. Marine Habitat • Marine Habitats are home to many animals that live in the Ocean such as dolphins, whales, sea turtles, sharks, tropical fish, etc.

4. DolphinHabitat • Dolphins live in a marine habitat. • There habitat consists of tropical waters, fish to eat, space to swim, and other dolphin friends to play and mate with. • They move habitats based on where they can find food. They eat fish such as: Mackerel, Herring and Cod. They also may eat Squid.

5. Desert Habitat Desert habitats are home to many animals like camels, rattlesnakes, bearded dragons, scorpions, etc.

6. Camel Habitat • Camels live in a desert habitat. • The camels habitat is extreme. The temperature is extremely hot, and there is scarce supply of food and water . • The camel can go a long period of time without food or water, as long as it gets water from the moisture in plants. • The camel eats things like dried leaves, seeds, and any desert plant they can find; they can eat thorny twigs because of the tough lining in their mouths.

7. Freshwater Habitat A freshwater habitat is home to many animals like frogs, beavers, fish, newts, heron, ducks, etc.

8. Frog Habitat • Frogs live in a freshwater habitat. • There habitat consists of fresh water to lay their eggs, vegetation where they can hide underneath, food they can eat like snails, slugs, caterpillars, beetles, woodlice, and other tiny animals. They also need other frogs present to be around and mate with.

9. Rainforest Habitat The rainforest habitat is home to many animals like anacondas, howler monkeys, sloths, jaguars, parrots, toucans, spiders, etc.

10. Anaconda Habitat • Anacondas live in a rainforest habitat. • Anacondas live in swampy areas and prefer calm surfaces so they can float with the current. • They like to live in shallow caves and go on the waters edge and sun bathe. • In the rainforest, adult anacondas eat caiman( type of crocodile), birds, fish, rodents, etc. There young eat small fish, rodents, baby birds, frogs, etc.

11. Producers • Producers are plants. • They produce their own food through photosynthesis. • Plants help give nutrients to consumers that need it; a turtle(consumer) eats lettuce(producer) to survive.

12. Consumers • Consumers are organisms that cannot make their own food. They need to consume/eat other things to survive. • Animals are not only consumers, we are too! • Animals (consumers) use producers to survive in their habitat. .

13. Food chains Producers and consumers make up a food chain. The producer (plant) is the bottom of the food chain, and the consumer (rabbit) eats the plant for food. The fox, which is also a consumer, is at the top of the food chain, and it eats the rabbit to survive. Food is a very important part to the animals habitat, and this is how the consumers survive.

14. Resources • https://www.google.com/search?sourceid=ie7&q=define+habitat&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-Address&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&rlz=1I7TSNA_en • http://www.allaboutdolphins.net/what_do_dolphins_eat • http://www.snh.org.uk/pdfs/education/commonfrog.pdf • http://www.animalhabitats.org/camels_habitat/camels_habitat.html • http://camelfarm.com/camels/camels_life.html • http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/rainforest/Animals.shtml • http://www.buzzle.com/articles/anaconda-habitat.html • http://www.ghsdcurriculum.com/inquiry/projects/rainforest/animals/animal_anaconda.html • http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/content/animals/kidscorner/foodchain/producersconsumers.htm