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ecology
words that i should know
Question | Answer |
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host | an animal or plant an in which a parasite or commensal organism live |
industrialization | the process in which a society or country transforms itself from a primarily agriculture |
trade off | a balance achievea between two desirable but incompatible features |
global warning | worldwide trend of increasing average temperatures |
reforestation | to replant |
precipitation | is any kind of water that falls from the sky as part of the weather |
parasite | an organism that obtains nourishment and shelter |
heterotrophic | organism that gets its energy and nutrients by consuming other organism |
no renewable resource | natural resource that is used more quickly than it can be formed |
autotrophic | organism that gets its energy from nonliving sources such as sunlight or inorganic chemicals |
abiotic | nonliving factors in the environment such as moisture temperature wile sunlight soil and minerals |
renewable resource | resource that replaces itself quickly enough so that it will not be used faster than it can be made |
pollution | anything that is added to the environment and has a negative affect on the environment or its organisms |
population | all of the individual of species live in the same area |
producer | organism that gets its energy from abiotic sources such as sunlight or inorganic chemical |
fossil fuel | a natural fuel such as cool or gas formed in the geological past |