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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 an area. |
| reforestation | replanting trees 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 organisms. |
| host | where a parasite lives. |
| producer | use abiotic source and energy to make energy rich molecules. |
| abiotic | non-living part of the environment. |
| biotic | living thing in the environment. |
| scavenger | eat death or dying animal. |
| population | all the organisms in an ecosystem that belongs to the same species. |
| parasite | organisms that lives in your body and warms it. |
| renewable resource | that can be replaced or reuse by nature. |
| non-renewable resource | cannot be reuse by nature. |
| autotrophic | organisms that can makes its own food. |
| heterotrophic | organisms that takes its food from the environment. |