African Habitats

What is a habitat?

• Where animals find food

• Where animals find shelter

• where animals can raise their young

• All of the above

What habitat has a rainy season and a dry season?

• the desert

• the rainforest

• the savanna

• the Nile River

What does the land of the savanna look like?

• It has lots of trees and rivers

• It is very grassy with a few trees and shrubs

• It is very sandy and rocky

• It is mountainous and rocky

What is are examples of deserts?

• Antarctica

• The Sahara

• The Kalahari

• all of the above

The baobab is

• a tree that provides a habitat for many animals

• a plant that zebras eat

• a river in Egypt

• a tree that lives only one year

The climate of the Sahara is

• hot day and night all year long

• rainy during part of the year and hot and dry the rest

• is hot during the day and cold at night

• has rain almost every day

Herbivores

• eat meat

• eat plants and animals

• eat only grass

• eat plants

Animals migrate because

• they need to find food

• they get tired of where they are living

• must flee predators

• want cooler weather

Grazers

• eat other animals

• eat grass

• eat leaves from trees and shrubs

• are a type of carnivore

The rainforest is important because

• it is home to a large variety of animals

• the trees provide oxygen to the planet

• the plants are a potential source of new medicines

• all of the above