EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -A niche is often described as a species’ role in the environment. It includes everything that the species does and all of the resources that it uses.

Detailed explanation-2: -The main components of a habitat are shelter, water, food, and space. A habitat is said to have a suitable arrangement when it has the correct amount of all of these.

Detailed explanation-3: -Habitat is the area in which a species lives. Simply stated, habitat is made up of four basic requirements for survival: sufficient space, food, water and shelter.

Detailed explanation-4: -There are basically three types of habitat. They are aquatic habitat, terrestrial habitat and arboreal habitat.

Detailed explanation-5: -Habitats may be an open geographical area or a specific site (e.g. a rotten log, a hollow tree, or inside a tree bark). They may be terrestrial or aquatic. Examples of terrestrial habitats are forest, grassland, steppe, and desert. Aquatic habitats include freshwater, marine water, and brackish water.