Biodiversity

4. measure of how many of an organism in an ecosystem (also known as abundance)
6. all of one type of organism in an ecosystem
8. all living things in an area and their interactions with each other and the environment
9. desert grassland with few trees (also known as scrubland)
11. climate with moderate temperature and rainfall
12. climate with high temperature and rainfall
14. independent living thing
16. cold climate grassland (artic and subarctic regions)
17. measure of how an organism is spread through an ecosystem
18. science of studying ecosystems

1. one type of living thing, all members can interbreed
2. region of Earth occupied by living organisms
3. environment providing shelter food and water to an organism
5. all living things in an ecosystem and their interactions with each other
7. the variety of living things and their interactions
10. climate with large variation in temperature and rainfall through the year
13. way of describing the temperature range and rainfall/precipitation
15. geographical region with specific climate and vegetation
16. cold climate woodland (artic and subarctic and high altitude) also known as boreal