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What is a habitat? Simple, true one living planet facts for young children, each with a fun fact, a tiny activity and a question to talk about together.

Tap a question to reveal the answer, share the fun fact, try the tiny activity, then talk about it together.

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What is a habitat? Revealexpand_more

A habitat is the natural home where a plant or animal has everything it needs to live, food, water, shelter and space. A pond is a habitat for frogs, a forest for owls, and even a single log can be a habitat for beetles. When a habitat is healthy, the living things in it can thrive.

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Talk about itIf you could design the perfect habitat for one animal, what would it need?

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Did you know?A coral reef is one of the busiest habitats on Earth, home to thousands of kinds of creatures.

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Try itExplore one small habitat near you, a hedge, pond or flower bed, and list the living things that call it home.

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🌐🕸️What is a food web?🌴Why are rainforests so important?🌎Why should we take care of nature?

🤖Still curious?What happens to animals when their habitat is destroyed?arrow_forward

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How does carbon move through nature? Revealexpand_more

Carbon is a building block found in every living thing, and it travels in a great loop. Plants take it from the air, animals eat the plants and breathe some back out, and it also moves in and out of the soil and the sea. This constant cycle keeps the same carbon moving between air, living things and the ground.

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Talk about itYou are part of nature's cycles too. How does it feel to be connected to everything like that?

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Did you know?The carbon in the pencil you write with was once part of living things long ago.

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Try itBreathe out onto your hand. You just returned a little carbon to the air, part of the cycle plants will use again.

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🌐🌿How do plants make their own food?🏠What is the greenhouse effect?🔁Where does rain come from, again and again?

🤖Still curious?How do trees help balance carbon in the air?arrow_forward

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Why are rainforests so important? Revealexpand_more

Rainforests are thick, green forests bursting with life, home to more kinds of plants and animals than anywhere else on land. Their trees make huge amounts of the fresh air we breathe and help keep the whole planet's weather steady. Protecting them protects countless creatures and helps everyone.

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Talk about itRainforests are far away for many of us but matter to us all. Why do you think that is?

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Did you know?More than half of all the land animal and plant species live in rainforests.

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Try itName three animals you think live in a rainforest, then look up whether you were right. There are so many.

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🌐🏞️What is a habitat?🌊Why are the oceans so important?🌎Why should we take care of nature?

🤖Still curious?What lives in the very top branches of a rainforest?arrow_forward

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What is a food web? Revealexpand_more

A food web is like many food chains woven together, showing how all the living things in a habitat are linked by what they eat. Most animals eat more than one thing and are eaten by more than one predator, so the connections cross over like a net. Change one strand, and the whole web feels it.

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Talk about itWhere do you think humans fit into the food web?

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Did you know?Even the smallest creatures, like insects and plankton, hold huge food webs together.

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Try itDraw three animals and a plant, then join with arrows who eats whom. You have just made a little food web.

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🌐🔗What is a food chain?🏞️What is a habitat?🐾Why do we need so many different animals?

🤖Still curious?Why is a food web stronger than a single food chain?arrow_forward

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