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Biodiversity

The degree of variation of living organisms - animals, plants, their habitats and their genes - within a given terrestrial or marine ecosystem. This includes diversity within species, between species, and of ecosystems.

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Habitat

Environment; Biodiversity

The area in which an animal or plant normally lives, such as a rain forest, a pond, or a coral reef.

Multicellular

Biology; Biodiversity

Made of many cells. All living things in the kingdoms of plants and animals are multicellular.

Hurricane

Environment; Biodiversity

Hurricane is a violent storm with a very strong wind and heavy rain and it begins as a group of smaller thunderstorms over a tropical ocean in summer.

Arboretum

Biology; Biodiversity

A place where different kinds of woody plants, such as trees, are grown for scientists to study and for people to learn about.

Appendage

Biology; Biodiversity

A part of the body that comes out from another part. The Flippers of a seal, the antennas of a crab are all appendages.

Aurora

Environment; Biodiversity

Bands of coloured light that flash and move about in the night sky, especially in the far northern and southern regions of the Earth.

Food web

Biology; Biodiversity

A group of food chains that are connected to each other in various ways within an ecosystem.

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