Animals and Their Habitats Matching

Year 2 ScienceLiving Things and Their Habitats3 pages

About this worksheet

Year 2 pupils start this habitats sheet by joining five animals (camel, woodlouse, polar bear, red squirrel and lobster) to five habitat pictures, from a rotting log to Arctic sea ice. On the second page, a park ranger checks how six animals survive. Pupils match features such as webbed feet on a pond duck and long eyelashes on a desert camel to how each one helps, and write letters A to F in the boxes. Question 7 asks why one animal could not live in another habitat. The sheet follows the England National Curriculum for Year 2 science, and an answer page gives every match.

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Curriculum objectives covered

Living things and their habitats

โ€œIdentify that most living things live in habitats to which they are suited and describe how different habitats provide for the basic needs of different kinds of animals and plants, and how they depend on each otherโ€

Questions 1 to 6 on page 2 link each animal's feature to its habitat, and question 7 asks why one animal could not live elsewhere. The sheet does not cover plants or how living things depend on each other.

Living things and their habitats

โ€œIdentify and name a variety of plants and animals in their habitats, including microhabitatsโ€

Page 1. The woodlouse under a rotting log is the micro-habitat, next to four larger habitats such as the desert and the Arctic. No plants are named.

What's inside this worksheet

Animals and Their Habitats

Pupils draw lines from five numbered animals to five pictures: a damp rotting log, sand dunes, an underwater kelp scene, Arctic sea ice and a woodland.

Park ranger features match

Six animal features, with the polar bear's thick white fur done as an example (D). Pupils write letters for the other five, then answer question 7 in writing.

Answers

The right picture for each animal, the letters 1-D, 2-A, 3-F, 4-B, 5-C, 6-E, and a model answer about a polar bear in the desert.

How teachers use it

Log lift

Before page 1, lift a log or a large stone in the school grounds. Pupils who have seen a woodlouse there rarely mismatch it.

Cover the answers

Cover the right-hand column on page 2 and ask pairs to guess what webbed feet or a tough shell are for before they see options A to F.

Marking question 7

The model answer about the polar bear's fur in the desert gives you the two points to look for: heat, and no snow or sea ice to hunt from.

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