🔍 Part 1: Understanding Habitats

1. What is a habitat? Circle the best answer:

A place where animals sleep

A place where plants and animals live and get their needs met

A place where only birds live

A place with lots of water

2. What do living things need from their habitat? Check all that apply:

Food

Water

Shelter

Television

Air

🌿 Part 2: New Zealand Habitats

3. Fill in the blanks using the words below:

Word bank: ngahere (forest), wai (water), shelter, food

In a New Zealand _____________, many native animals find _____________ under ferns and trees. Birds drink _____________ from streams, and insects provide _____________ for many creatures.

4. Name three native New Zealand animals that might live in a forest habitat:

5. Name two native New Zealand plants that provide shelter for animals:

🔗 Part 3: How Living Things Depend on Each Other

6. Match each animal with what it might depend on in its habitat:

1. Tui bird

2. Weta insect

3. Gecko

4. Fantail

A. Dead wood for hiding

B. Nectar from flowers

C. Small insects to eat

D. Tree bark for shelter

7. Explain in one sentence how a native bird and a native tree depend on each other:

🎨 Part 4: Habitat Detective

8. Draw a simple New Zealand habitat showing at least 3 living things and how they might be connected:

9. What might happen if all the trees were removed from a forest habitat? Explain your thinking:

10. How can we be kaitiaki (guardians) of our local habitats? Write two ways:

🌟 Part 5: Reflection

11. What is the most interesting thing you learned about habitats today?

12. Circle how confident you feel about understanding habitats:

Very confident - I understand how living things depend on each other

Quite confident - I understand most of it

Not very confident - I need more help understanding

Living Things and Habitats

Living Things and Habitats

🔍 Part 1: Understanding Habitats

🌿 Part 2: New Zealand Habitats

🔗 Part 3: How Living Things Depend on Each Other

🎨 Part 4: Habitat Detective

🌟 Part 5: Reflection

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