habitation vs habitat

habitation and habitat both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
habitation	Yes	No	No	No
habitat	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, habitat is a hypernym of habitation; that is, habitat is a word with a broader meaning than habitation:

habitation: the native habitat or home of an animal or plant
habitat: the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs

Other hypernyms of habitation include home ground.

habitation (noun)	habitat (noun)
the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men)	the type of environment in which an organism or group normally lives or occurs
housing that someone is living in
the native habitat or home of an animal or plant