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ecology
vocabulary words
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| trade off | giving up one thing for another |
| deforestation | the act or result of cutting down or burning all the trees in a area |
| reforestation | replanting trees in a area where they used to be |
| global warming | worldwide trend of increasing overage temperature |
| pollution | has a negative affect on the environment or its organisms |
| host | where a parasite lives |
| producer | use abiotic source and energy to make energy rich molecules |
| abiotic | nonliving thing in the environment |
| biotic | living thing in the environment |
| scavenger | eat death or dying animal |
| population | all the organism in a ecosystem that belongs to the same species |
| parasite | harm the host |
| renewable resources | that can be replaced or reuse by nature |
| nonrenewable resources | cannot be reuse by nature |
| autotrophic | organisms that can makes its own food |
| heterotrophic | organisms that takes its food from the environment |
| evaporation | changing of a liquid to gas |
| precipitation | any kind of weather condition where something falling from the sky |
| industrialization | occurs when a industry is introduced on a large scale to a region or country |
| conservation | take care of the environment |