Key Vocabulary

Biodiversity refers to diverse forms of life that inhabit a given area. Bio meaning life, diversity meaning all the differing kinds of life that are living and growing there.
A citizen or community scientist is an individual who voluntarily contributes his or her time, effort, and resources toward scientific research in collaboration with professional scientists or alone. These individuals don’t necessarily have a formal science background.
A naturalist is a person who studies plants and animals as they live in nature.
An organism is an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form.
Habitat is where an organism lives and grows.
A survey means to look at or examine carefully and appraise something.
An ecosystem is a system, or a group of interconnected elements, formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their environment.

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