Habitat Hunter

Introduction

A Habitat is a place where species get what they need to survive: food, water, cover, and a place to raise young. In other words, a habitat is a plant or animal's home.

Task

Using the resources below as a starting point, find at least three websites in your subject area (habitats).  Read through them thoroughly, check the links, and consider the questions and the content involved.

Then determine which Websites provide the best route to understanding the subject material and its implications.

Process

Search for Websites using the resources .  Find two habitats that you think are most like the habitat that we have and one habitat that you think is completely different.  Use The questions below to help shape your thinking between the different environments.

http://happeninhabitats.pwnet.org/what_is_habitat/habitat_types.php

http://pbskids.org/wildkratts/habitats/

http://www.skyenimals.com/browse_habitat.cgi

Can you distinguish between a desert and a grassland?

how is the temperate forest similar to the tropical forest?

Evaluation

How would you feel if you lived in a desert?

What do you think about different types of forests?

Do you think living in a forest habitat is a good or bad thing?

Conclusion

As you can tell there are many different types of habitats. Hopefully, this webquest will help you differentiate between them all.