Question

A desert habitat is a terrestrial habitat.
a. True
b. False

Answer 1

Hint: The place where a living being (plant or animal) survives is called a habitat. A habitat provides food, water, air, light, and shelter to the plants and animals living in it. A habitat can be either terrestrial or aquatic. The type of habitat varies from an organism to another.

Complete answer:
These habitats, which are found on the lands, like forests, grasslands, and deserts, etc. are called a terrestrial habitat. It also includes certain man-made habitats, which are farms, towns, and cities, and habitats that are under the earth, like caves and mines.

Three types of the terrestrial habitat:
- Desert: Small animals stay out at night, while in the day they stay inside the holes deep in the sand. Plants do not have leaves. Photosynthesis takes place through stems.
- Mountain: Plants are cone-shaped, and leaves have a needle-like structure. Animals have thick fur to protect from the cold.
- Grassland: Brown, found in the grassy area.

A water-based habitat is called an aquatic habitat. The plants and animals living in it are said to live in aquatic habitats. Examples of aquatic habitat are- ponds, rivers, lakes, swamps, and oceans.
Hence, it is true that a desert is a terrestrial habitat.

So, the correct answer is option (A).

Additional information:
- A habitat has two components, biotic and abiotic components of the environment.
- The biotic component includes living things.
- It includes living, viz plants, animals, and micro-organisms.
- The abiotic component is the non-living component.
- It includes soil, air, water, sunlight, and rocks.
- Many plants and animals adapt themselves to different environmental conditions according to their habitat in which they are living.

Note: Terrestrial habitat includes forest, grasslands, deserts, farms, towns, and cities, etc. Hence, it is true that the desert is a terrestrial habitat, i.e., living plants and animals have their habitat on the lands. Various plants and animals have adapted due to the difficult environmental conditions and lack of availability of resources in the desert.