--- title: Habitats and adaptations — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Habitats and adaptations», a lesson of the world course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A habitat is the place where a living thing lives and finds food, water, shelter and a mate: a desert, the Arctic, the ocean or a forest. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/27-habitats-and-adaptations/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / Habitats and adaptations # Habitats and adaptations Lesson 27 of the world course of Mova's primary school: 18 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/world/27-habitats-and-adaptations/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/27-habitats-and-adaptations/0/) — A habitat is the place where a living thing lives and finds food, water, shelter and a mate: a desert, the Arctic, the ocean or a forest. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/27-habitats-and-adaptations/1/) — An adaptation is a feature of the body or behaviour that helps a living thing survive in its habitat; adaptations grow over very many generations (parents, then their young, then their young's young, and so on), not during one animal's life. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/27-habitats-and-adaptations/2/) — A camel stores fat (not water) in its hump, can go many days without drinking, has wide feet for soft sand and can close its nostrils against blowing sand; a cactus stores water in its thick stem and has spines instead of leaves to lose less water. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/27-habitats-and-adaptations/3/) — A polar bear has thick fat, dense fur and black skin under its pale fur; it has small ears and wide feet for walking on snow. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/27-habitats-and-adaptations/4/) — A fish has gills, fins and a smooth shape for water. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/27-habitats-and-adaptations/5/) — In a rainforest, monkeys have gripping hands and tails for the trees, and many animals have colours that help them hide (camouflage) or that warn they are poisonous. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/27-habitats-and-adaptations/6/) — A habitat is the natural home of a living thing. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/27-habitats-and-adaptations/7/) — An adaptation is a feature that helps a living thing survive in its habitat. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/27-habitats-and-adaptations/8/) — Adaptations develop over many generations, not in one animal's life. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/27-habitats-and-adaptations/9/) — A camel's hump stores fat, not water. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/27-habitats-and-adaptations/10/) — Cacti store water in thick stems and have spines instead of broad leaves. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/27-habitats-and-adaptations/11/) — Spines lose much less water than leaves and also protect the cactus from animals. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/27-habitats-and-adaptations/12/) — Polar bears have a thick layer of fat and dense fur to keep warm. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/27-habitats-and-adaptations/13/) — Many Arctic animals have small ears, which lose less heat. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/27-habitats-and-adaptations/14/) — Many desert animals, like the fennec fox, have big ears that help them lose heat. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/27-habitats-and-adaptations/15/) — Many desert animals sleep in burrows by day and come out in the cool night. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/27-habitats-and-adaptations/16/) — Fish have gills to take oxygen from water and a smooth shape to swim easily. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/27-habitats-and-adaptations/17/) — Camouflage is colouring that helps an animal blend in with its surroundings. - ← previous: [Food chains and food webs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/26-food-chains-and-webs/) - next →: [Migration and hibernation](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/28-migration-and-hibernation/) - ↑ back to [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/)