Forests - Free Educational Science Games & Activities for Kids

A forest is a land area that is populated mainly by trees. Forest are important ecosystems and are very common on Earth. Forest's help produce oxygen that all living things need to breathe. There are many types of forest including tropical rain forests, deciduous forests and coniferous forests. Forests are filled with not only trees but plants and animals that depend on the forest biome to live.

A biome is a large naturally occurring community of plants and animals occupying a large habitat for example of forest or tundra. Biomes I typically defined by their claimant and dominant vegetation including grassland, tundra, desert, rain forest, and forests. A desert biome is great for a heat loving blizzard but a koala bear needs leafy greens of a forest biome. A biome is different than an ecosystem, a biome can be made up of many ecosystems.

Habitats are places where plants and animals live. A habitat will provide food and water and shelter to the inhabitants. There are many different types of habitats around the world from humid hot forests to vast grasslands, from icy mountain slopes to the hottest deserts. Different habitats are home to different animals. Every organism has certain habitat needs to thrive. I habitat isn't always just based on a geographical area it can be the interior of a rotten log, a clump of loss or a single cell within a host body. Habitats can change over time because of an earthquake, a tsunami, a wildfire or because of human activities like clear-cutting forests.

ForestsFree Games & Activitiesfor Kids

Forests
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