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You need a home, and wildlife do to!
Wildlife's home is called HABITAT, and every living thing needs a habitat with these FOUR things in order to survive:



Food - to provide energy needed to move, live and grow. Food might be plants, bugs, or meat from other animals.



Space - enough space to find the food,water and shelter they need to roam and call home.



Shelter - to stay out of the weather, like a den, a pile of rocks, an underground hole, a bush, or a nest.




Water - to drink or consume.

Also, these four things need to be arranged in just the right way in order to provide good habitat for wildlife. Each type of animal in the wild might need a different type of habitat than another kind of animal to survive. For example, people usually live in houses and call them home. A fish, though, lives in water and gets its food, space, shelter and water in a different way and place than we do. Plus, different fish might need different arrangements of food, space, shelter and water.

If any of these four things, FOOD, SPACE, SHELTER, or WATER is missing, an animal will be impacted. And, many times, if one thing is impacted, other things in that habitat are impacted, too. That's because plants and animals in an environment are dependant on each other to maintain a balance that works for everyone.

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