Teacher Answer Sheet for the student worksheet "What Do You Call Home"

"Regional Location of New Jersey" map skills questions

1. New York, Pennsylvania, and Delaware border New Jersey

2. The Delaware River, the Hudson River, and the Atlantic Ocean are natural boundaries for New Jersey

"Pinelands National Reserve" map skills question

3. Portions of the Pinelands are found in seven New Jersey counties: Atlantic, Burlington, Camden, Cape May, Cumberland, Gloucester, and Ocean.

Vocabulary definitions:

4. habitat-a place that has everything a living thing needs in order to survive

5. space-the area an animal needs to find food, raise its young, exercise, and rest

6. shelter-the place where an animal can rest, be safe from its enemies, be protected from the weather, store food, and bear and raise its young

7. herbivore-an animal that feeds principally on living plants

8. omnivore-an animal that eats both plants and other animals

9. carnivore-an animal that eats other animals

10. scavenger- an animal that eats dead or decaying organic matter

11. upland-land that is well above sea level and often dry

12. wetland-low land that is often swampy because the water table is at or near the earth's surface

13. bog-a wet level area with spongy soil in which the water table is near the earth's surface

14. swamp-low lying ground in which water collects

15. pond-body of water smaller than a lake

16. stream-water that flows and follows a channel or bed

17. river-a body of water that is usually larger than a stream

"Pinelands Vegetation" map

Habitats found on the vegetation map include: upland (pitch pine and oak forests), wetlands (cedar swamps, hardwood swamps, marshes), cranberry bogs, rivers, lakes/reservoirs, streams

 

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