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Geography Action! Habitats: Home Sweet Home

You need only look out your window, take a walk outside, or stroll around your neighborhood to celebrate Geography Action! 2003—Habitats: Home Sweet Home.

Beginning just beyond the window, and extending past the boundaries of your town or city across the Earth's surface, an amazing variety of habitats awaits—along with the plants and animals that live in them.

Start exploring them with our Introduction.
Then, get to know your "home" by identifying which of these habitat types you live in or near:

Cities and Suburbs
Deserts and Tundra
Forests
Fresh Water
Oceans and Coasts
Prairies
photo: Leonardo DiCaprio Habitat Hero
Kids Take Action!
Be a Habitat Hero—help Leonardo DiCaprio save the Earth!



Geography Action: Cypress Swamp
Explore Your Habitat
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