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ecology
vocabulary words
Term | Definition |
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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 |