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Book Free DemoHabitats located in the land area are called terrestrial habitats.
The land area that makes up around 28% of the world belongs to terrestrial habitat.
The land area that makes up around 28% of the world belongs to terrestrial habitat.
Terrestrial habitats are classified as:
- Desert habitat
- Grassland habitat
- Forest habitat
Desert habitat
Habitats that exist in deserts belong to this category. These habitats are dry, receive scanty rainfall (less than 25cm/yr.).
The plants in this habitat developed special characteristics to overcome excessive heat and very little water availability.
The following are some of the characters desert plants exhibit:
- Thick leaves - to store water and minerals.
- Spines - some plants convert their leaves to spines to overcome water loss through evapotranspiration.
- Long roots - to penetrate the land and reach the ground water source.
- Thar desert is the desert habitat we have in India. Which is located in the state of Rajasthan.
- These habitats receive scanty rainfall less than 25 cm annually.
Grassland habitat
This habitat is characterized by the vast area of grasses. The grasses grow up to a height of 2 meters. For example, Savanna grassland.
Forest habitat
This habitat is characterized by the presence of forest area mostly dominated by trees.
- Forests found in tropical area are called tropical forest.
- Forests in temperate zone has temperate forest and forests found in mountains are called mountain forests.
The rainfall ranges from 25-200 cm in forest habitats.
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Image credit:
Desert : Free Image by ArtTower from Pixabay ; https://pixabay.com/photos/pink-sand-dunes-utah-usa-desert-65310/
Savanna : Free Image by David Mark from Pixabay ; https://pixabay.com/photos/africa-panorama-elephants-grassland-1933329/
Forest : Free Image by Schwoaze from Pixabay ; https://pixabay.com/photos/nature-landscape-mountains-sky-3616194/
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