Pond Habitat

What is a pond habitat?

A pond is water with land all around it. It is like a lake with fresh water, but it is much smaller. A pond forms from fresh rainwater. Look at this pond. What do you see? Click on the image to see a larger version.

Each plant and animal plays an important part in the life of a pond. After a plant dies, it breaks down and helps to make the soil richer so that more plants will grow. Dead plants are food for tiny living things in the water.

The animals and plants in the pond are living because they eat, breathe, grow, and change. The animals also move and have babies. For example, plants grow up toward the sunlight, and tadpoles develop into frogs. The stones around the pond are nonliving because they do not eat, breathe, move, grow, change, or have babies.