Habitat

The place where an organism lives is its habitat. It is a place that is suitable to its way of life. For example, the habitat of a caterpillar is the plant on which it lives. Habitats may be small, such as the food canal of a mammalian host in the case of round worm, or large, such as the savanna in the case of a zebra. Some examples of habitats include

• aquatic habitats -- puddles, fresh water ponds, streams and flooded rice fields;

• terrestrial habitats -- bush, farmland, rain forests and deserts;

• arboreal habitats --- true trunks and tree tops.