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The Habitat 

Alphabet Book

Written and Illustrated by:

Heather Graf

The arctic tundra is a treeless land which covers 

20% of the Earth's surface. The ground is always 

covered with snow or ice and is usually 

very cold.

Many animals live 

underground in burrows. Some 

animals spend their entire 

lives in burrows, others 

spend only a portion of their 

lives in them. Burrows 

protect animals from 

predators and extreme 

temperatures. 

Coral reefs are warm, clear, shallow ocean 

habitats that are rich with life. The coral 

provides shelter for many different animals. 

The Great Barrier Reef off the coast of 

Australia is the largest coral reef in 

                           the world.

Deserts are usually very, very dry. The 

extreme heat and extreme dryness makes 

it a very harsh environment.   Not many 

plants or animals can 

            survive in deserts because the 

            lack of water needed to 

survive.

An animal or plant is considered endangered

when there are so few left alive in the wild 

that the entire species is in danger of vanishing 

forever, or becoming extinct. 

Unfortunately, many animals are endangered 

         due to hunting and deforestation. 

Farmland is not a natural environment but 

it is a very important one. The man-made 

fields are used for grazing, sowing and 

harvesting and have been since the stone 

ages. Many plants and animals are raised 

here although they are usually used for 

human consumption.

Grasses are the most plentiful plant 

in grasslands which is why it got its

name! Trees and shrubs are rarely found in

grasslands but they are known for having some of 

the darkest, richest soils in the world. 

A habitat is a place where a plant or animal 

lives. Different animals need different 

habitats and each habitat fits the animals 

living in its needs perfectly. A fish needs 

water to live in, but a grasshopper needs a 

big space to hop around and plenty of leaves to 

eat.

Some habitats experience extreme heat.

This is true for many deserts and also 

many African countries. Many 

animals cannot survive such 

intense heat and the heat waves that 

                             come along with it.

                            Elephants thick skin helps

                           them adapt to the 

                          hot weather. 

The Jurassic Period 

was the age of the 

dinosaurs. It began around 206

million years ago. All of the plants    

and animals that lived during that 

time

are now extinct and cannot be found

in the wild anymore.  

The Florida Keys offer a range 

of habitats, providing homes to 

              a wide variety of animals.

                        Large sea grass meadows

                          support an array of

                              marine life. 

Caves are home to many

animals. These animals are adapted to life

in the dark and many cannot 

see at all. Some animals cannot survive 

outside of the cave but others live in the 

cave but venture out of the cave also. There 

are three

different levels of the cave: the entrance 

zone, the

twilight zone and                   

the dark zone.

            On a mountain, the weather and 

the organisms that live there change often as 

the elevation increases.

As temperatures get 

colder, tree species 

change and then eventually disappear

all together. At the top there is 

usually nothing but snow and ice.

The North Pole is the most 

northernmost 

place on Earth. It is at the very top 

of the 

globe. There is no land at the North 

Pole but

it is covered in a thick layer

of ice around 6 to 9 feet 

thick.

The ocean habitat is the largest

habitat in the world. It covers about 70% of 

the Earth. The five main oceans are the 

Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, Arctic and 

Southern. Oceans are usually very salty 

                 and home to a vast variety

                   of organisms.

A plateau is a flat elevated land form 

that rises sharply above the 

surrounding area. A plateau can be

formed by a volcano. Many mammals 

as well as insects and reptiles can 

make plateaus their homes. 

The equator is an imaginary circle around

the Earth which divides it into two equal

parts: the Northern Hemisphere and the 

Southern Hemisphere. It runs east and

west between the North and South poles. 

It is always very hot at the equator.

Tropical rainforests are 

forests

with tall trees, warm 

climates and lots of rain. 

Rainforests are home to more 

than 50 percent of the plants and 

animals on Earth. 

       A swamp is an area of land 

      that is permanently filled with 

    water. Many swamps are even covered with

water. Swamps have a lot of trees and can

exist in many kinds of climates and on 

every continent except Antarctica.

Tide pools are located in between high 

and low tides. Plants and animals 

living here have 

to be able to survive a long time 

out of water, and also a long time

in the water as the tides move in 

and out throughout each day.

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