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chapter 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| ecology | the study interaction with living organisms in there environment |
| agriculture | the raising crops and livestock for food |
| natural science | |
| pollution | a change in the natural environment that is harmful to living organisms |
| biodiversity | the variety of organisms in a given area |
| extinct | something that died out and cant be brought back |
| gaia hypoyhesis | |
| slash-n-burn agriculture | burn forested down to make farm land |
| mussels | |
| domesticated | organisms that have been bred for human use |
| indicator | |
| depleted | when a large fraction of the resourses are used up |
| algae | |
| contamination | were it is dameged like food |
| law of supply and damand | a law of economics that states that as the demand for good or service increases |
| ecological footprint | acalculation that shows the productive area of earth |
| commons | were areas of land that belonged to a whole village |
| cost benefits analysis | balances the cost of the action against yhe benefits one expects from it . |
| risk | the probabilityof an unwanted outcome |
| bias |