Mpala Live! Unit 1 Living Things Around Us Lesson 1 Animals Around Us Vocabulary Biodiversity biological variety in an environment as indicated by numbers of different species of plants and animals http://www.wordcentral.com/cgi­bin/student?book=Student&va=biodiversity Ecosystem
a system made up of an ecological community of living things interacting with their environment especially under natural conditions http://www.wordcentral.com/cgi­bin/student?book=Student&va=ecosystem Habitat
the place or type of place where a plant or animal naturally or normally lives or grows http://www.wordcentral.com/cgi­bin/student?book=Student&va=habitat Monoculture the cultivation or growth of a single crop or organism especially on agricultural or forest land http://www.merriam­webster.com/dictionary/monoculture Organism
an individual living thing that carries on the activities of life by means of organs which have separate functions but are dependent on each other; a living person, plant, or animal http://www.wordcentral.com/cgi­bin/student?book=Student&va=organism Species
a class of things of the same kind and with the same name ; kind, sort http://www.wordcentral.com/cgi­bin//apps/apache/docs/wordcentral.com/cgi­bin/student