Biodiversity I

An ocean ecosystem that consists of an underwater structure made from outside skeletons of tiny, soft-bodied animals called coral

The benefits experienced by organisms which are provided by healthy ecosystems

A geographic area on Earth that contains ecosystems with similar biotic and abiotic features

Regions along coastlines where streams or rivers flow into a body of salt water

A type of biome that contains areas where grasses are the dominant plant

Describes the balance between different parts of the ecosystem

A type of biome that receives very little rain

The variety of ecosystems in the biosphere

A forest biome consisting mostly of cone-bearing evergreen trees

Forests that grow near the equator and experience heavy annual rainfall

Regions of Earth between the tropics and the polar circles

The ability of an ecosystem to maintain dynamic equilibrium even with significant outside disturbances

the number of different species and the quantity of each species in an ecological community

Aquatic ecosystems that have a thin layer of water covering soil that is wet most of the time

A group or organisms that have similar traits and are able to produce fertile offspring

The variety of genes or inherited traits that are present in a population

The number and variety of organisms found in a specific region