Habitat

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A habitat (from the Latin for "it inhabits") is the place where a particular organism usually lives or grows. A biotope is the smallest possible geographic region of a habitat. A biome is the set of flora and fauna which live in a habitat and occupy a certain topography. A microhabitat is the immediate surroundings of a plant or animal within a habitat.

Habitat may also refer to:

A space habitat is a self-contained environment supporting some number of people in the vacuum of space in a permanent way. See space colonization.
Habitat is the name of a chain of furniture stores founded in the 1960s by Terence Conran.
Habitat was one of the first successful online roleplaying games
Habitat for Humanity is a charity related to housing.

See also: heath, marsh, habitat conservation

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