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Ecology
Vocabulary words to know
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Trade Off | Giving up one thing for another |
| Deforestation | The result of cutting down or burning all the trees in area. |
| Reforestation | replanting trees or seeds in an area where they used to be |
| Global Warming | worldwide trend of increasing average temperature |
| Pollution | has a negative affect on the environment or its organism |
| Host | organism where a parasite lives |
| Producer | use abiotic source and energy to make energy rich molecule. |
| Abiotic | non-living part of the environment |
| Biotic | living-thing of the environment |
| Scanvenger | organism that eats death or dying animals |
| Population | All the organism in an ecosystem that belongs to the same species |
| Parasite | An organism that lives on or inside another organism and harms the host |
| Renewable resources | resources that can be replaced or reuse by nature |
| Non-renewable reources | resources that cannot be reuse by nature |
| Autotrophic | Organism that makes its own food |
| Heterotrophic | Organism that takes its food from the environment |
| Precipitation | Any kind of weather condition where something falling from the sky |
| Industrialization | Occurs when an industry is introduced on an large scale to a region or country |
| Conservation | process of putting place to protect the environment , restore it . Take care of the environment |