HABITAT AND TYPES OF HABITAT

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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