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ecology
voc. words to know
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |