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Question | Answer |
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carnivore | meat eater |
carrying capacity | the least available resource in an environment controls the communities ability to hold the population |
competition | refers to the way organisms try to get resources at the expense of the other organism |
deciduous | trees that lose their leaves |
deforestation | removing trees in large areas - usually to make way for farm lands |
ecological footprint | damage to the environment as a result of human activity |
fossil fuels | energy sources that come from dead organisms buried underground for many years |
global warming | the process of allowing the earth to heat as a result of greenhouse effect |
habitable | an area that is able to be lived in |
herbivores | animals that eat only plants |
hydrosphere | a term used to describe the water layer of the earth surface |
infrastructure | term used to describe roads, power grids, bridges, water systems, etc. for public use |
lichens | small lime green colored plants that have an unusual ability to cling to rock surface |
lithosphere | the solid layer of rock along the earth's surface |
mutualism | a symbiotic relationship in which both species benefit from the other |
parasitism | a form of symbiosis in which one species benefits and the other is harmed |
phytoplankton | a microscopic plant found in water biomes which is often the base of the food chain |
population | the number of one type of organism within a ecosystem's community |
precipitation | usually rain or snow |
population density | how far apart members of a population live |
predation | the process of one animal that hunts and feeds another animal |
predator | an animal that hunts another animal |
prey | the animal being hunted |
runnoff | water that does not seep into the soil layers, instead traveling along the surface |
species diversity | variation within a species population. |
terrestrial biomes | biomes that occur on land territory |
urban sprawl | when city areas spread out to suburban areas |
urbanization | the process of making an area more like a city |
watershed | a large area that drains all into one large drainage basin such as the mississippi river |