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INVESTIGATING HABITATS
Finding out where plants live
A habitat is the place where a living thing is best suited to live, and where it finds shelter, food and others of its own kind.
Now that we have seen a wide variety of habitats, we can start to investigate them for ourselves.
Habitats come in all shapes and sizes. There are microbes living in our bodies, on our eyes, ears and so on. Most do you no harm, but to them an ear, a mouth or an eye
is home – it is their habitat.
On a larger scale, a woodland is home to
the trees that live there, but also to all of the other plants and the many animals that use it for food and shelter (picture ).
Rock pools by the sea, ponds, rivers or coral reefs are all watery habitats.
Where dandelions live
To get used to finding out where something lives, you can begin by walking around, close to your home or school, and looking at the plants
you find there. Then notice where they are common and where they are
uncommon.
Look for the bright-yellow dandelion, for
example. You should find it on the school playing field, in your garden or in a park.
What do all of these places have in
  As you move from a woodland to a meadow and then to a pond, you will find different things making their home in each place. Each place is a different habitat.
Brambles partially shaded and partly in sunny areas
FULL SUN
Oak tree
Ivy climbing up tree in shade Ferns in shade
SHADE