Science glossary · South Africa
Habitat
The place where a plant or animal naturally lives and finds what it needs.
A habitat gives a living thing food, water, shelter and space.
Example: A pond is a habitat for frogs, dragonflies and water plants.
Lessons, worksheets, practice and tools on this: Living things and life cycles.
Related words
- Photosynthesis: How green plants make their own food using light.
- Life cycle: The stages a living thing goes through from birth to having young of its own.
- Adaptation: A body part or behaviour that helps a living thing survive where it lives.
- Germination: When a seed begins to grow into a new plant.
- Pollination: The moving of pollen from one part of a flower to another so that seeds can form.