Vocabulary

1. all the animals that live in a particular area
4. the art, buildings, traditions, and beliefs that a society considers important to its history and culture
7. an area of land that is beautiful to look at or has a particular type of appearance
11. a plant or animal group whose members all have similar general features and are able to produce young plants or animals together
13. the fact that very different people or things exist within a group or place
15. an animal such as a FROG or a TURTLE that can live both in water and on land
16. to support or encourage something

1. all the plants that grow in a particular region
2. to prevent land, water, or other natural RESOURCES from being damaged or destroyed
3. to be very successful (synonym: THRIVE)
5. the business of creating and selling vacations that give people the chance to learn about a natural environment, and cause as little damage to the environment as possible
6. to use NATURAL RESOURCES such as trees, water, or oil so that you gain as much as possible
8. all the plants and animals in a particular area, considered as a system with parts that depend on one another
9. a type of animal that lays eggs and whose body is covered in SCALES for snakes and CROCODILES
10. an animal that is caught by another animal and eaten
12. the parts of the Earth's surface and atmosphere where plant and animal life can exist
14. the type of place that an animal normally lives in or a plant normally grows in
17. an animal that is born from its mother's body, not from an egg, and drinks its mother's milk as a baby