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Spell Bee Word: Habitat


What does habitat mean?

Word: Habitat

Part of Speech: Noun

Meaning: Habitat means the natural home of an animal or plant, where it finds food, water and shelter.

Synonyms: home

How do you spell habitat?

Syllables: hab - i - tat

Tricky part: The middle i is said so softly that children drop it or write e in its place.

Watch out for: habetat, habtat

Memory tip: Tap three beats as you say hab-i-tat. The quiet middle beat is only the letter i, the same sound as at the start of it.

Habitat in a sentence

Example 1: The rainforest is the habitat of many colourful birds.

Example 2: Mangroves are a habitat for crabs, fish and many birds.

Example 3: We built a small pond in school as a habitat for frogs.

Fun Fact

Habitat is a Latin word meaning it lives. Old nature books written in Latin used it to say where each plant or animal was found.

Practise the CREST Way

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the incorrectly spelt word:

a) habbitat
b) shelter
c) grassland
d) creature

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a) habbitat. Habitat needs only one b; habbitat has doubled it.

Mingle-Mangle

Form a meaningful word from the jumbled letters:

tabhiat

a) haibtat
b) habitat
c) hatibat
d) habitta

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b) habitat. The jumble starts with t, but the word starts with h; the two t's then sit apart, one in the middle and one at the end.

Word Cookie

Fill in the missing letters to form a word:

h_bit_t

a) a, a
b) o, a
c) a, e
d) e, a

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a) a, a. Both gaps take the short a of cat.

Word Connection

Choose the synonym of the word:

habitat

a) climate
b) season
c) population
d) environment

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d) environment. An animal's habitat is the environment it lives in.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which is the natural habitat of a camel?

a) a sandy desert
b) a freshwater lake
c) a rainforest
d) an icy sea coast

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a) a sandy desert

2. What harms a habitat the most?

a) cutting down a forest
b) cleaning a river
c) putting up bird boxes
d) planting new trees

Show answer

a) cutting down a forest

Associated Words

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