1. Danielle Ruff CES 3 rd Grade

2. What are Habitats and Environments? Where Things Live Fish live in water Birds live in trees and fly through the air Most plants grow where there is soil, water, and sun. Living things can be found almost everywhere on Earth. Pg. 266

3. Where Things Live Everything that surrounds a living thing makes up its environment. Plants and animals use things from it environments to meet their needs. Many living things may share an environment and its resources. Food Water Oxygen Space If the environment has too little of any of these things, the living things compete with one another to get what they need. Pg. 267

4. Parts of an Ecosystem An ecosystem is made up of all the living and nonliving things that interact in one place. Georgia has many different ecosystems. There are many kinds of living things in an ecosystem. However they don’t all live in the same part of the ecosystem. The place in an ecosystem where a plant or animal lives is its habitat. A habitat includes both living and nonliving things. Pg. 268 &269

5. Living Things and Their Habitats Most living things can survive only in a certain habitat. A polar bear, for example, could not find the water it needs in a desert. A living things habitat gives it everything it needs to survive. Pg. 270

6. Changes to Ecosystems All living and nonliving things in an ecosystem interact. When one part of an ecosystem changes, it can affect all the other parts. People can change ecosystems. When we cut down trees or drain wetlands, we destroy the habitats of many living things. These living things must find new places to live. Pg. 271