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Habitats are places where different plants and animals live, grow, and survive.

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Learn about the different natural environments of plants and animals.

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Learn about amazing mountain animals with this National Geographic Kids resource. Perfect for our young explorers!

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Making Mountains

Some mountains form when the big slabs of rock-called tectonic plates-that make up the Earth's crust crash into each other. Over millions of years, the sheets of rock push up and over one another, creating the mountain. Others form when vents in the Earth's surface erupt and spew lava out onto the ground. The lava piles up and cools. Over millions of years, the many layers of hard lava become a mountain.

Mountains are on every continent. The longest mountain range is over 40,000 miles long-and 90 percent is under the ocean! Called the Mid-Ocean Ridge, it wraps around the globe like the seams of a baseball. The longest aboveground mountain range is the Andes. Running along the entire west coast of South America through seven different countries-including Argentina, Chile, and Colombia -it's 4,700 miles long.

Mount Everest, on the border of Nepal and China in Asia, is the highest mountain above sea level in the world. Towering at just over 29,000 feet it would take almost 5,000 grown men stacked on top of each other to reach that high.

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Watch this engaging video about life in the mountains. See how animals and plants adapt to high altitudes!

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Mountain Animals | Learn about Habitats | Animal homes | Mountain Habitat

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Discover how desert animals survive in hot temperatures with this fun PBS Kids video!

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Vegas PBS STEAM Camp S2 Ep2 |  Desert Animal Adaptations and Robotics

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Check out this kid-friendly website to learn about cacti, camels, and other desert dwellers!

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Deserts are the driest places on Earth—they get fewer than 10 inches (25 centimeters) of rain a year. Some deserts may get a lot of rain all at once. Then it might not rain again for months—or even years!

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Take a virtual tour of the rainforest! Learn about the different layers and the animals that live there.

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Virtual Field Trip | Exploring the Amazon

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Watch amazing footage of rainforest creatures in their natural habitat. Perfect for our young scientists!

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Rainforest Animals 🐅🌴 - Animals for Kids - Educational Video

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Dive into the ocean with this interactive website. Meet dolphins, whales, and other sea creatures!

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Explore animal profiles, games, videos, photos, and more!

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Learn about lakes, rivers, and ponds with this educational video. Perfect for understanding water habitats!

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Discover how polar bears, penguins, and other arctic animals stay warm in the freezing cold!

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It's cold at the poles. In the Arctic, the average winter temperature is about around minus 22°F. At the South Pole, it is even colder. The lowest temperature ever recorded-minus 129°F-was in Antarctica.

Even though it's chilly in polar regions, they do have seasons-well, two seasons: summer and winter. In the summer, the sun shines 24 hours a day, but it never gets high enough above the horizon to warm things up, so even summers are pretty cold. It's dark all winter at the poles, because the sun doesn't rise during those months of the year. Fierce continuous winds make it feel even colder.

You'll see plenty of snow at the poles, but little rain. Antarctica and parts of the Arctic are actually considered deserts because of the lack of rainfall.

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Watch this fascinating video about how animals survive in the Arctic's extreme conditions.

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A Walk in the Arctic for Kids | Educational Video for Early Learners

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Start here to learn what makes a habitat! Perfect introduction for our 2nd grade scientists.

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What Is A Habitat | Educational Videos for Kids

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Use this interactive site to compare and contrast different habitats around the world!

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PBS Kids has four habitat games: Feed the Dingo, Mountain Scramble, Jungle Jeopardy, and Make A Mangrove. In each game, you will need to populate the habitat with sufficient numbers and types of plants and animals to allow all species to thrive.

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PBS Kids has four habitat games: Feed the Dingo, Mountain Scramble, Jungle Jeopardy, and Make A Mangrove. In each game, you will need to populate the habitat with sufficient numbers and types of plants and animals to allow all species to thrive.

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Fun games and activities to help learn about different habitats. Perfect for indoor or outdoor learning!

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Do you know where the red-eyed tree frog calls home? Play this game based on animal habitats to learn! Explore the desert, coral reef, jungle, and marsh to discover where many animals live by matching each animal to their correct habitat!

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Instantly access About Habitats: Mountains plus over 40,000 of the best books & videos for kids.

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Instantly access In The Arctic plus over 40,000 of the best books & videos for kids.

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Land Habitats kids' book from the leading digital reading platform with a collection of 40,000+ books from 250+ of the world's best publishers. Read now on Epic.

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Explore the Rainforest! | Ecology for Kids

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Where Do Mountains Come From? | Geology for Kids

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If you understand the climatic conditions that create a biome, you can understand why certain plants become dominant. If you understand what plants are dominant, you may understand how the other plantsand animals there are adapted to these particular biomes.

Thus, by understanding these relatively few biomes, you can understand almost all the ecosystems on Earth. They'll all differ a bit, but most of the generalizations will hold true.

Why is that even important? I suppose that answer is up to you. It makes you sound really smart at parties. You may also impress a friend or two about your offhand knowledge of a particular place. Or, imagine if you entered a survival competition and that little bit of knowledge you learned about a particular biome helped you win that thing! Now, I think we're on the same page.

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Biomes of World: A Virtual Tour of the Biomes

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If you understand the climatic conditions that create a biome, you can understand why certain plants become dominant. If you understand what plants are dominant, you may understand how the other plantsand animals there are adapted to these particular biomes. Thus, by understanding these relatively few biomes, you can understand almost all the ecosystems on Earth.

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Winter at the North Pole! | Winter Science | SciShow Kids

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Antarctica: The Coldest Place on Earth! | SciShow Kids

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Life Under The Ice with Ariel Waldman! | A Field Trip to Antarctica! | SciShow Kids

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How Glaciers Change the World! | Winter Science | SciShow Kids

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Coolest Ocean Facts! | SciShow Kids Compilation

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SciShow Kids - The Driest Places on Earth

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SciShow Kids - The Driest Places on Earth

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The Driest Places on Earth | SciShow Kids

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The Layers of the Redwood Forest | Explore the Redwoods | SciShow Kids

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How Do Lakes Form? | Goodbye, Mister Brown! | SciShow Kids

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SciShow Kids - How Tall Can Mountains Get?

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SciShow Kids - How Tall Can Mountains Get?