Characteristics of

Habitats

environment

• all of the natural world of land, sea, and air

habitats

• the natural home of a group of plants and animals

Georgia Habitats

• Georgia has many different types of habitats. They include:1. Mountains2. Piedmont3. Wetlands4. Coastal Plains5. Atlantic Ocean

wetlands

• land where there is a lot of moisture in the soil, such as marshes and swamps

Other Habitats

• Some other habitats that we that can be found around the world include:1. Deserts2. Grasslands

desert

• dry, often sandy land that gets very little rain

grasslands

• large, open areas of grass, such as pasture or prairie

trait

• a feature, or a characteristic of an animal that makes him different from another

• This is an arctic hare.– Shortened ears and thick, white fur are among the

physical traits that it has adapted to survive in the harsh, frozen tundra.

reproduce

• to produce more of a living thing

Survive

• to stay alive– Using this picture, what do you think a

plant or animal would need to survive?

migrate

• to travel from one place to another and back again

hibernate

• to spend the winter in a kind of deep sleep