| A | B |
| community | The all the populations of organisms that live in an ecosystem |
| ecosystem | the living and nonliving things in an environment |
| environment | The things, both living and nonliving that surround a living thing |
| habitat | The place where a population lives in an ecosystem |
| population | A group of the same kind of living things that all live in one place at the same time |
| coniferous forest | A forest in which most of the trees are conifers (cone-bearing) and stay green all year |
| coastal forest | A thick forest with tall trees that gets a lot of rain and does not get very wram or cold |
| deciduous forest | A forest in which most of the trees lose and regrow their leaves each year |
| forest | An area in which the main plants are trees |
| tropical rain forest | A hot, wet forest where the trees grow very tall and their leaves stay green all year |