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A place where a plant or animal lives.
Habitat
Diversity
The different kinds of plants and animals in one place.
Adaptation
A feature that helps a plant or animal stay alive where it lives
Tundra
A very cold, flat habitat near the North Pole.
Wetland
An area that has very wet soil because it is covered with water.
Marsh
A wetland with plants that are mostly grasses.
Swamp
A wetland with plants that are mostly trees.
scientists who study plants.
Botanist
Pollination
is the spreading of pollen from flower to flower.
to scatter in different directions.
Disperse
animals and insects that carry pollen from one plant to another.
Pollinators
a place that protects animals.
Shelter
Part of the air that we breathe that we need to live.
Oxygen
Soil
The top layer of Earth where plants can grow.
a material that helps living things grow.
Nutrient
life cycle
The way plants and other living things grow and change is called a life cycle.
is a living thing that cannot make its own food.
Animal
is a living thing that can use energy from the sun to make food for itself.
Plant
forests in warm, sunny areas.
Tropical rainforest
desert
dry areas with few plants and very little rain
prairies.
home to different types of grasses and bushes. Not many trees can grow.
a large body of salt water.
ocean
have a lot of diversity and are fresh water.
Rivers and Streams
Ecologist
a scientist who studies living things and their habitats.
an area found on some seashores.
Tide pools