Family & Friends (Relationships, Work, Animals, Plants) • Topic 3 of 4

Animals: Habitats & Care

Animals are a CTET goldmine. By food habit, animals are herbivores (eat only plants: cow, goat, deer, elephant, rabbit), carnivores (eat other animals: lion, tiger, frog, snake) and omnivores (eat both: crow, bear, dog, human). By relationship to people, animals are wild (lion, tiger, deer in forests) or domestic (cow, dog, hen, kept by humans). A habitat is the natural home of an animal: fish live in water, camels in the desert, polar bears in cold snowy regions, monkeys in trees. Animal homes have special names CTET loves: a den (lion), a burrow or hole (rabbit, mouse), a nest (bird), a stable (horse), a hive (bees), a kennel (dog), a web (spider). Migration is the seasonal long-distance journey animals make for food or breeding; the Siberian crane is the classic example that flies to India (Bharatpur) in winter. Adaptations are favourites: the camel's hump stores fat and its broad feet stop it sinking in sand; a duck's webbed feet help it swim; a tiger's sharp teeth and claws help it hunt; a cow's flat teeth grind grass. Caring for animals (food, water, shelter, kindness) is the value stressed.

✅ Solved examples

1. A cow eats only grass and plants. By food habit it is a:
Herbivore. Herbivores eat only plants; its flat, broad teeth are adapted for grinding grass.
2. How is a camel adapted to live in the hot, sandy desert?
Its hump stores fat (so it can survive long without food and water) and its broad, padded feet stop it from sinking into the sand. It can also go many days without water.
3. The Siberian crane flying to Bharatpur in India during winter is an example of:
Migration, the seasonal long-distance journey animals make for food, warmth or breeding.
4. The natural home of a lion is called a:
Den. (A rabbit lives in a burrow, a bird in a nest, a horse in a stable and bees in a hive.)

✏️ Practice — try these, take hints as needed

1. A lion that eats only the flesh of other animals is a:
Meat eater.
Sharp teeth and claws.
Carnivore
2. A crow that eats both grains and insects is an example of an:
Eats plants AND animals.
Like humans.
Omnivore
3. A duck can swim easily because it has:
Special feet.
Skin between the toes.
Webbed feet
4. A cow and a dog kept and reared by humans are called:
Opposite of wild.
Live with people.
Domestic animals
5. Bees live together in a:
Makes honey.
Hangs from a branch.
Hive

📝 Topic test — 8 questions

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