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chapter 1
Question | Answer |
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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 |