A large areas primarily dominated by trees, with moderate ground coverage, such as grasses and shrubs.

Animals such as deer, bears, birds, rabbits, snakes, and monkeys live in forest habitats.

An ocean habitat is a habitat that supports marine life. Marine life depends in some way on the saltwater that is in the sea.

Animals such as sharks, whales, fish, turtles, dolphins, and sea lions live in ocean habitats.

A desert habitat is a region of land that is very dry because it receives low amounts of precipitation (usually in the form of rain).

Animals such as camels, iguanas, hedgehogs, armadillos, scorpions, and caracals live in desert habitats.

Arctic habitats, found by the north and south poles, are cold, windy and covered in frozen snow and ice.

Animals such as penguins, polar bears, beluga whales, arctic hares, walruses, and harp seals live in arctic habitats.

K-ESS3-1: use a model to represent the relationship between the needs of different plants or animals (including humans) and the places they live.

Forest habitats: trees, burrows, dens

Ocean habitats: reefs, underwater caves, sand on ocean floor

Desert habitats: cactus, rocks, caves

Arctic habitats: ice caves, snow dens, snow burrows

Pollution is the introduction of harmful materials into the environment.

Less pollution by just YOU will help all animal habitats in so many ways! mainly by keeping ecosystems stable and reducing threats to wildlife.

Some ways you can reduce pollution is by:

• walk or bike places instead of driving if possible

• reduce, reuse, recycle

• clean up your environment

• save water

• take care of nature

For example:

The effect of polar bears loosing their cold climate habitats is because the effect of global warming.