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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 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. |