It is usually necessary to convert a unit weight into a load per unit area (psf) or load per unit length (plf) in order to complete a structural analysis of a structural element.
Habitat. Definition. noun, plural: habitats. (1) Place where an organism or a biological population normally lives or occurs.(2) The location or environment where an organism (or a thing) is most likely to be found, e.g. the body part of the host of a parasite as in the scalp of the host is the habitat of a head louse.3) The home to a particular organism where the species will attempt to be as adaptive as possible to that particular environment. (4) The place being occupied by an organism, population, or community. Supplement. Word origin: from Latin, it dwells, third person sing. present of habitÄre, to dwell.
A habitat is the location where a group of one type of organism (a population) lives, while a biome is a community made of all the habitats in a given region and climate. Different organisms inhabit different types of biomes.