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3. A biome where grasses are the main plant life.
5. A group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or reproducing.
6. An area of coastal wetlands located where an estuary or rives meet the sea/ocean.
9. The collection of small or microscopic organisms, including algae and protozoans, that float or drift in great numbers in fresh or salt water, especially at or near the surface, and serve as food for fish and other larger organisms.
11. A hot biome near the equator, with much rainfall and a wide variety of life.
13. Bodies of water that contain freshwater; they are smaller than oceans.
14. A water based type of ecosystem that includes freshwater or saltwater environments.
16. All the members of a species in an area.
17. One of the Earths largest ecosystems with its own kind of climate, soil, and animals.

1. All the living and non living things in an environment, including their interactions with each other.
2. A land-based type of ecosystem.
4. Producing or capable of producing abundant vegetation or crops; an area rich in nutrients that has the ability to support many plants.
7. The edge of a continent that lies under the ocean.
8. A Forest Biome with many kinds of trees and lose their leaves each autumn.
10. A place where fresh and saltwater meet in a coastal area; the fresh water automatically becomes salty; the saltwater does not become fresh when the two types of water mix.
12. The largest bodies of water found on Earth that consist of saltwater and contain a variety of aquatic life. They are divided by the continents.
15. The interaction of all the living things in an area.