Living Resources
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Natural resources | Anything in the environment that is used by humans
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| Renewable resource | A resource that is either always available or is naturally replaced in a relatively short time
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| Nonrenewable resources | Natural resources that are not replaced in a useful time frame
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| Pollution | The contamination of earth's air, land, or water
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| Environmental science | The study of natural processes in the environment and how humans can affect them
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| Clear-cutting | The process of cutting down all the trees in an area at once
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| Selective cutting | The process of cutting down only some trees in an area
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| Sustainable yield | An amount of a renewable resource that can be harvested regularly without affecting the future supply
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| Fishery | An area with a large population of valuable ocean organisms
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| Aquaculture | The practice of raising fish and other water-dwelling organisms for food
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| Biodiversity | The number of different species in an area
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| Keystone species | A species that influences the survival of many other species
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| Genes | The structures in an organism's cells that carry its hereditary information
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| Extinction | The disapperance of all members of a species from earth
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| Endangered species | Species in danger of becoming extinct in the near future
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| Threatened species | Species that could become endangered in the near future
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| Habitat destruction | The loss of a natural habitat
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| Habitat fragmentation | Breaking larger habitats into smaller, isolated pieces
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| Captive breeding |
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| Poaching | The illegal killing or removal of wildlife from its natural habitat
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