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Chapter 5 & 6 Vocab.

Chapter 5& 6 Vocabulary Words.

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Monoculture Farming strategy of planting a single, highly productive crop year after year.
Renewable Resource Resource that can be produced or replaced by healthy ecosystem functions.
Nonrenewable Resource Resource that cannot be replenished by a natural process within a reasonable amount of time.
Sustainable Development Strategy for using natural resources without depleting them and for providing human needs without causing long-term environmental harm.
Desertification Lower land productivity caused by over-farming, overgrazing, seasonal drought, and climate change.
Deforestation Destruction of forests.
Pollutant Harmful material that can enter the biosphere through the land, air, or water.
Biological Magnification Increasing concentration of a harmful substance in organisms at higher trophic levels in a food chain or web.
Smog Gray-brown haze formed by a mixture of chemicals.
Acid Rain Rain containing nitric and sulfuric acids
Biodiversity Total of the variety of organisms in the biosphere; also called biological diversity.
Ecosystem Diversity Variety of habitats, communities, and ecological processes in the biosphere.
Species Diversity Number of different species that makeup a particular area.
Genetic Diversity Sum total of all the different forms of genetic information carried by a particular species, or by all organisms on Earth.
Habitat Fragmentation Splitting of ecosystems into pieces.
Ecological Hot Spot Small geographic area where significant numbers of habitats and species are in immediate danger of extinction.
Ecological Footprint Total amount of functioning ecosystem needed both to provide the resources a human population uses and to absorb the wastes that population generates.
Ozone Layer Atmospheric layer in which ozone gas is relatively concentrated, protects life on Earth from harmful ultraviolet rays in sunlight.
Aquaculture Raising of aquatic organisms for human consumption.
Global Warming Increase in the average temperatures on Earth.
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