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Finite
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| finite | having certain limits : limited in scope or nature : not infinite. 2. : limited in grammatical person and number. a finite verb. |
| Resilient | resilience is the capacity of a system—ranging from molecules and organisms to populations and ecosystems—to withstand disturbances, maintain core functions, and recover or adapt following environmental stress, damage, or perturbations. |
| overexploitation | Overexploitation in biology, also known as overharvesting, is the excessive harvesting or hunting of renewable natural resources (such as plants, animals, and fish) at a rate faster than they can naturally replenish themselves. |
| biosphere | The biosphere is the global ecosystem encompassing all living organisms (plants, animals, microbes) and their interactions with the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere. |
| geosphere | The geosphere is the solid, non-living component of Earth, encompassing all rocks, minerals, sediments, and soil from the surface down to the inner core |
| hydrosphere | The hydrosphere is the total sum of all water on Earth, including surface water (oceans, lakes, rivers), underground water (groundwater, aquifers), and atmospheric water vapor |
| atmosphere | Earth's atmosphere is a mixture of gases, primarily nitrogen (78%) and oxygen (21%). The remaining 1% consists of argon (0.93%), carbon dioxide (0.04%), and trace amounts of other gases like neon, helium, and methane. |
| conserve | In biology, a conserved sequence refers to segments of DNA, RNA, or protein that remain largely identical or similar across different species (orthologous) or within a genome (paralogous) over evolutionary time |
| Aquatic | |
| Sequester | |
| indefinitely | |
| dilute | |
| Constraint | |
| Criterion | |
| carrying capacity | |
| correlation | |
| causation- | |
| aesthetic |