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CPS HSAT Vocabulary · Tier 3

habitat

noun

Definition

the natural home of an animal or plant

In a sentence

Wetlands provide habitat for many birds.

Similar words

  • environment
  • home

Why this word matters: habitat appears in academic reading at the 8th-grade level and is exactly the type of word that shows up on the CPS HSAT Reading section. Practice it in context with our spaced-repetition system at vocabulary.