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habitat a place in which an organism lives biologist a scientist who studies living things community a group made up of all the interacting populations that live in an area treeline the altitude at which tree growth is impossible blanket bogs extensive wetlands permafrost soil that has been at or below the freezing point of water for two or more years adaptation a characteristic that is inherited and that helps an organism survive in its environment cold desert the name of very low temperatures and little precipitation that occurs in the Artic ecosystem abiotic the non-living things in the environment peat dead plant material in bogs and marshes that decays very slowly as a result of being covered with water population a group of organisms of the same species, living together in one ecosystem organism any living thing migrate organisms when they go to another place to live when seasons change niche roles of a species including where it lives, how it obtains its food and how it affects its environment tuckamore a clump of weather-beaten conifers (spruce, fir, pine and larch). From cold, salty wind of the ocean. photosynthesis occurs in plants when water and carbon dioxide combine with the help of sun's energy to produce food and oxygen ecosystem biotic and abiotic parts of the environment Arctic the ecosystem that is located at the northernmost tip of Labrador species a group of organisms that can successfully mate with each other biotic the living and once living parts of the environment forest the ecosystem that has organisms such as moose, caribou and black bear ecologist the scientist who studies groups of individuals of the same species that live together in one ecosystem at the same time range of tolerance the range of abiotic conditions within which an organism can survive struggle zone the area where trees become fewer and shorter as conditions become less hospitable, usually as you go up a mountain coastline and ocean ecosystem the ecosystem that has no plant growth below 100m to 200m due to a lack of sunlight freshwater ecosystem the ecosystem that includes organisms such as sticklebacks, beavers and ducks