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Ecology
Notes
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| wetlands | land that is covered all or part of the time with salt or fresh water. |
| Marsh | wetland dominated by aquatic herbaceous emergants. |
| Swamp | wetland dominated by trees |
| Bog | wetland that accumulates acidic peat |
| Ombrotrophic | body of water that was glacier fed. |
| ecology | biological science that studies the relationships between living organisms and their environment. |
| environmental science | uses info. from social and physical sciences to learn hoe the earth works |
| sustainable society | meets the basic resource needs of its people indefinitely with out depleting the natural capital that supplies these resources |
| globalization | everything becoming interconnected in the world |
| social | increasing exchange of people and modern communications and human mobility |
| environmental effects | decentralized network allows for sustainability on a global scale |
| sustainable yield | highest rate a renewable resource can be used indefinitely with out reducing supply |
| environmental degradation | exceeding a renewable resource's natural replacement rate |