Animals need food, water, shelter, and space to survive.

You can meet a pet’s basic welfare needs by giving it food, water, ventilation, and by protecting it from injury or ill health. Taking care of your pet also means meeting a pet’s emotional needs, too. Remember these basic needs, so your pet doesn’t suffer from: thirst, hunger, and an unhealthy diet.

Examples of habitats include:

• desert.
• meadow.
• woodland.
• grassland.
• forest.
• seashore.
• ocean.

Habitats and ecosystems

• African savanna.
• Amazon rain forest.
• American desert.
• Antarctica.
• The Arctic.
• Coral reef.
• Land habitats.
• Rain forest layers.

Habitats are characterized most often by climate and location. They can range from warm, moist areas near the Equator—such as the Amazon rain forest—to cold polar areas such as the Arctic. The animals and plants that live in a particular habitat have adaptations that allow them to survive there.

Species, in biology, classification comprising related organisms that share common characteristics and are capable of interbreeding. This biological species concept is widely used in biology and related fields of study.

A species is often defined as a group of individuals that actually or potentially interbreed in nature. For example, these happy face spiders look different, but since they can interbreed, they are considered the same species: Theridion grallator.

1. The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the man who borrows, and the man who lends. 2. The female of the species is more deadly than the male.

In both the original Latin and in English “species” is the spelling of both the singular and plural forms. Amphiprion ocellaris is one species of clownfish. Many species of fish are endangered by overfishing. Specie is a technical term referring to the physical form of money, particularly coins.