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ecology
vocabulary to know
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Trade off | giving up one thing for another |
| Deforestation | the act or result of cutting down or burning all the trees in an area |
| Reforestation | replanting trees in an area where they used to be |
| Pollution | has a negative affect in the environment or its organism |
| Host | where a parasite lives |
| Producer | use abiotic source and energy to make energy rich molecules |
| abiotic | nonliving part of the environment |
| biotic | living ting in the environment |
| scavengers | eat death or living animals |
| population | all the organisms in an ecosystem that belongs to the same species |
| parasite | harm the host |
| renewable resource | that can be replaced reuse by nature |
| no-renewable resource | cannot be reuse by nature |
| autotrophic | organism that can make its own food |
| heterotrophic | organisms that takes its food from the environment |
| evaporation | changing of a liquid to gas |
| industrialization | occur when an industry is introduced on a large scale to region or country |
| conservation | take care of the environment |