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ecology
vocabulary words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Trade Off | Giving up one thing for another |
| Deforestation | The result of cutting down or burning all the trees in an area |
| Reforestation | Replanting trees seeds or young trees in a area where there used to be a forest |
| Fossil fuel | Nonrenewable energy source formed from remaing of plants and animals that lived and died long ago |
| Global warming | World wide trend of increasing average temperature |
| Pollution | has a negative affect on the environment or its negative |
| Host | The organism that aparasite lives in or on |
| Producer | Organism that use and outside energy source such as the sun to make energy rich molecules |
| Abiotic | nonliving part of the enviroment |
| Biotic | LIving thing the enviroment |
| Scavenger | Organism that eats death or dying animals |
| Population | All the organism in a ecosystem that belongs to the same species |
| Parasite | An organism that lives on or inside another organism and harm the host |
| Renewable resource | Resources that can br replaced or reuse by nature |