EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -A habitat is a place where an organism makes its home. A habitat meets all the environmental conditions an organism needs to survive.

Detailed explanation-2: -The term “habitat” has several meanings. In ecology it means either the area and resources used by a particular species (the habitat of a species) or an assemblage of animals and plants together with their abiotic environment.

Detailed explanation-3: -The area where a particular organism lives naturally is called its habitat. The five major habitats are – forests, grasslands, deserts, mountains, polar regions and aquatic habitat. Oceans and freshwater together form the aquatic habitat.

Detailed explanation-4: -A habitat is crudely the address of an organism, it is the place where it lives. For example, the habitat for whales is oceans. The habitat for tigers is forests. The habitat of earthworms is soil.