Habitats and the Environment

Which region of the world has a hot, dry climate?

• savannah

• tropical

• polar

• temperate

Which of these is a habitat?

• a grassy field with prairie dogs, grasshoppers, and wheat plants

• a baseball game with a pitcher, batter, and catcher

• a city street with two cars stopped at a red light

• an icy canyon with no living things in it.

During which season do many animals hibernate?

• spring

• summer

• autumn

• winter

Why are these so many different types of habitats on Earth?

• Every kind of living thing builds a habitat to meet its own needs.

• The latitude, elevation, climate, land, water, plants, and animals can be different from one place to another.

• Every place on Earth has similar latitude, elevation, climate, land, water, plants, and animals.

• All places on Earth have water, plants, and animals, but only some have latitude, elevation, and climate.

How do people change habitats?

• They change the habitat's latitude

• They bring storms to the habitat.

• They build cities in place of the habitat.

• All of the above

When people cut down trees, the soil can be washed away by rain. This is an example of _______________________.

• pollution

• erosion

• a habitat

• an environment

Which of these is NOT an example of an adaptation?

• a cat having sharp claws to defend itself and to climb.

• birds migrating to a cooler place in the summer.

• an anteater having a long tongue to reach ants deep in a hole.

• ice melting on a frozen river in the spring.

Which statement is true?

• All living things live in the same habitat.

• No two living things share the same habitat.

• Living things survive best in habitats in which all their needs are met.

• Living things survive best in habitats in which one of their needs in met.

Which of these is a building block of habitats?

• animals

• elevation

• plants

• all of the above

What is latitude?

• a way of feeling about something

• the freedom to do what you want

• a measure of how far a place is from the equator

• a measure of how hot or cold a place is.