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ecology
voc. words to know
Term | Definition |
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nonrenewable resources | cant be by nature |
autotrophic | organism that can make its own food |
heterotrophic | organism that take its food from the environment |
evaporation | change of liquid to gas |
precipitation | any kind of weather conditions where something is falling from the sky |
industrialization | occurs when a industry is introduced on a large scale to a region or country |
trade off | giving up one thing for another |
deforestation | the act or result of cutting down or burning all trees in a area |
reforestation | replanting trees in a area |
global warming | worldwide trend of increasing of average temperature |
host | where a parasite live |
pollution | has a negative affect on the environment or its organism |
producer | abiotic or source of energy to make energy rich molecules |
abiotic | non living part of the environment |
biotic | living things in an environment |
scavenger | eat dead or dying animals |
population | all the organisms in an ecosystem that belongs to same species |
parasite | harm the host |
renewable resources | that can be replaced to be reuse by nature |