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Unit 8/10 Environmen
Science 5th
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Environment | all the living and nonliving things that surround and affect an organism. |
| Pollution | a waste product that harms living things and damages an ecosystem. |
| Ecosystem | a community of organisms and the environment in which they live. |
| Conservation | the process of preserving and protecting an ecosystem of a resource |
| Extinction | the death of all the members of a certain kind of living things. |
| Adaptation | a trait or characteristic that helps an organism survive. |
| Habitat | the place where an organism lives and can find everything it needs to survive |
| Instinct | a behavior that an organism inherits and knows how to do without being taught |
| Grassland | an area of land covered mostly with grasses that generally receives less rain than a forest. |
| Taiga | land that is very cold in the winter and that is covered mostlyPolar with conifers |
| Desert | an area of land that is very dry |
| Polar | near Earth’s North Pole or South Pole |