| A | B |
| tropical | Very warm and wet |
| community | A place where people live |
| Tropical Rainforest | An area that is hot and wet and has a lot of rain |
| Deciduous Forest | A place that has warm summers, cold winters and trees that lose their leaves in the fall |
| Taiga | A place that has long, snowy winters and evergreen trees |
| herbivore | an animal that eats only plants |
| carnivore | an animal that eats only other animals |
| omnivore | an animal that eats both plants and other animals |
| food chain | shows how plants and animals get their energy and how they need each other to survive |
| permafrost | permanently frozen ground |
| temperate | Not too hot and not too cold, mild |
| biome | large areas of land with similar weather, plants and animals |
| habitat | a special home for a plant or an animal |
| ecosystem | a community of living and nonliving things that work together |
| environment | the world around us including the air, land, water, plants and animals |
| Grassland | an area that is covered in grass and grains where sheep and buffalo live |
| Tundra | a very cold place without trees where polar bears and caribou live |
| Desert | an area that is very dry with cacti plants and snakes |
| living thing | anything that can grow and reproduce |
| nonliving thing | anthing that is unable to grow, move, breathe and reproduce |