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Unit 1 - Lesson 1
You and the Land vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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non renewable resources | a resource that is in limited supply and cannot be replaced once it has been used |
pesticides | any substance intended for preventing or killing pests |
agriculture | farming |
ecosystems | a specific area where living and nonliving animal interact |
pollutants | waste matter that contaminates the water or air or soil |
recycle | taking old materials and making them into something new |
conservation | act of using a resource wisely |
landfills | solid waste disposal area, a dump |
habitat | where an organism lives |
EPA | Environmental Protection Agency |
endangered species | animals with very small numbers that might no longer exists |
DDT | dangerous pesticide, no longer in the USA, used to kill insects |
fossil fuel | a nonrenewable energy resource formed from the remains of organisms that lived long ago |