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15 vocab review
Term | Definition |
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Hibernation | The condition or period of an animal or plant spending the winter in a dormant state. |
Poaching | The illegal practice of trespassing on another's property to hunt or steal game. |
Adaptation | The action or process of adapting or being adapted. |
Sustainable Forestry | A forest that is carefully managed so that as trees are felled they are replaced with seedlings |
Permafrost | A thick subsurface layer of soil that remains frozen throughout the year. |
Carnivore | An animal that feeds on flesh. |
Herbivore | An animal that feeds on plants. |
Omnivore | An animal or person that eats food of both plant and animal origin. |
Autotroph | An organism that is able to form nutritional organic substances from simple inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide. |
Heterotroph | An organism deriving its nutritional requirements from complex organic substances. |
Habitat Fragmentation | The process by which habitat loss results in the division of large, continuous habitats into smaller ones. |
Hypothesis | A proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation. |
Keystone Species | A species on which other species in an ecosystem largely depend on. |
Prey | An animal that is hunted and killed by another for food. |
Predator | An animal that naturally preys on others. |