Geography Term 1

What is a habitat?

• The natural home or environment of a plant, animal, or other organism

• The non living things in the environment

• The plants and animals that live in the area.

• Relationships between living and non living things

What is an example of a habitat?

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Match the following

• Mountains Habitat

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• Rainforest

  Habitat

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• Arctic Habitat

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• Ocean Habita

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• Desert

  Habita

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What animals live in the Arctic Habitat

• Tucan, jaguar, macaw

• arctic foxes, penguins, seals

• Lizards, snakes, scorpions

• spiders, butterflies, pigeons

How do we call three ocean zones?

• Morning, afternoon and evening zone

• sun zone, middle zone and the dark zone

• sunlight, twilight, midnight zones

• shallow, medium, deep zone

The examples of extreme weather are?

• earthquake, volcano, hurricane

• hurricane, blizzard, tornado

• tsunami, flood, avalanche

• volcanoes, blizzards, thunderstorms.

What is global warming?

• Cooling down of the temperatures around the globe

• Pollution of the Earth

• Earth's rising average temperature, due to the CO2 trapped in the atmosphere

• Destruction of the habitats

What is a climate change?

• Destruction of the habitats on the planet

• Storms, Blizzards, Hurricanes and Floods

• Warming up of the air and water due to CO2 emissions

• long-term changes in temperatures and weather patterns

What are the main causes of the climate change?

• Deforestation, emissions of CO2 due to burning fossil fuels

• Habitat loss, extreme weather

• Pollution and melting of the ice

• Floods and deforestation

What does deforestation mean?

• planting new trees and forests

• cutting down the trees and forests

• destroying the habitats

• burning down the forests