Habitat can be defined as the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism
Types of habitat
There are 4 types of habitat namely:
1) Marine habitat: The marine habitat is the largest of all habitats. The seas, oceans, and bay have occupied about 70% of the earth surface
2) Fresh water habitat: it is the smallest of the three primary environments.
It contains many more kind of animals than does the terrestrial habitat
3)Estuarine habitat: in estuarine habitat
Estuarine or brackish zone is formed in those regions where a river meets a sea.
Note: At high tides such habitat experience maximum salinity and salinity decreases during low tide and period of heavy rain
4)Terrestrial habitat: of all the three major types of habitat, terrestrial habitat is the most variable.
In altitude it ranges below sea level to mountain peaks more than 28,000 feet in height
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