Biodiversity

6. The variety of life on earth, including the variety within each species, among species and among ecosystems.
7. An animal that has a backbone or spinal column. These include mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fish.
8. An animal without a backbone. This group includes about 95% of all animal species.
10. The way in which two or more species affect each other because they are related in some way.
12. an organism that must consume other organisms as their food source.
13. an organism capable of making its own food using the sun’s energy
15. features belonging to an organism which can help us identify it.
16. A unit of heredity that is transferred from a parent to offspring and can influence the offspring’s characteristics.
17. The natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.

1. or reproduce itself as quickly as it is being used.
2. Species, A non-native species that negatively affects the habitats they invade. Invasive species may be either plants or animals and may cause disruption by taking over a region and preventing other organisms from performing their jobs.
3. A group of living organisms that have similar characteristics and can mate with
4. another to produce offspring.
5. The variation of inherited characteristics.
9. An individual living thing including animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, etc.
11. Community, An interactive group of organisms, their habitat, and the natural processes that affect them.
14. the harvesting of a renewable resource to the point where it cannot