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5B Ch 4 Vocabulary
5B Ch4 Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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pioneer plants | the first plants to invade a bare area |
pollution | waste products that damage an ecosystem |
succession | a gradual change in an ecosystem, sometimes occurring over 100s of years |
acid rain | precipitation resulting from pollution condensing into clouds and falling to Earth |
climax community | the last stage of succession |
conserving | the saving or protecting of resources |
reduce | to cut down on the use of resources |
reclamation | the process of restoring a damaged ecosystem |
reuse | to use items again; sometimes for a different purpose |
wetlands | the water ecosystems that include saltwater marshes, mangrove swamps, and mud flats |
recycle | to recover a resource from an item and use the recovered resource to make a new item |