what is a habitat?

Answer 1

Its a Natural home for animals or plants.

Answer 2

Habitat (which is Latin for "it inhabits") is the place where a particular species lives and grows. It is essentially the environment—at least the physical environment—that surrounds (influences and is utilized by) a species population. We use "species population" instead of "organism" here because, while it is possible to describe the habitat of a single black bear, we generally mean not any particular or individual bear, but the grouping of bears that comprise a breeding population and occupy a certain geographical area. Further, this habitat could be somewhat different from the habitat of another group or population of black bears living elsewhere. Thus, it is neither the species, nor the individual, for which the term habitat is typically used. A microhabitat or microenvironment is the immediate surroundings and other physical factors of an individual plant or animal within its habitat.

However, the term "habitat" can be used more broadly in ecology. It was originally defined as the physical conditions that surround a species, or species population, or assemblage of species, or community (Clements and Shelford, 1939). Thus, it is not just a species population that has a habitat, but an assemblage of many species, living together in the same place that essentially share a habitat. Ecologists would regard the habitat shared by many species to be a biotope.

Habitat destruction is a major factor in causing a species population to decrease, eventually leading to its being endangered, or even to its extinction.

A biome is the set of flora and fauna which live in a habitat and occupy a certain geography.

Answer 3

Main Entry:hab·i·tat
Pronunciation:'ha-b&-"tat
Function:noun
Etymology:Latin, it inhabits, from habitare
1 a : the place or environment where a plant or animal naturally or normally lives and grows b : the typical place of residence of a person or a group c : a housing for a controlled physical environment in which people can live under surrounding inhospitable conditions (as under the sea)
2 : the place where something is commonly found

In addition, there are site-specific habitats. For instance, there are bird habitat's set up around some lake areas. These are protected regions where birds can stop over during migration periods, or to nest their young.

Answer 4

A habitat is an ecological term for a place that is suitable for a species ideal needs for survival. In this habitat, all controlable and uncontrolable forces are taken in to account. These are referred to in Biology as abiotic and biotic factors.
Biotic factors would include food supply, water, temperature, etc... And those abiotic factors include the weather, for example.

In a habitat these factors are found to be perfect by the species.

Answer 5

A habitat is the living or dwelling place of any creature, including man, and includes the surrounding envirinment. Molluscs, for example, have their shells - but they also have a habitat in water.

Answer 6

Habitat - The specific area a species or animal dwells in.

The type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs

Answer 7

a habitat is where an organism lives, A habitat provides shelter, food and other physical resources

Answer 8

the place an something lives and eats. a horses habitat would be a barn or a pasture. A frogs would be the rainforest.

Answer 9

Natural place of living.

Answer 10

It is the natural home of an animal or plant.