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APES General Terms
Lytle APES General Terms - Academic Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| characteristic | a distinguishing trait, quality, or property |
| dynamic | Characterized by continuous change or activity. |
| emigrate | To leave one place or country, especially one's native country, in order to settle in another. It is used only to describe people and implies a permanent move, generally across a political boundary. |
| extinct | no longer in existence; no longer in use; obsolete |
| extirpate | To remove or destroy totally; do away with; exterminate; to pull up by or as if by the roots |
| fecundity | The ability to produce offspring frequently and in large numbers. In demography, fecundity is the potential reproductive capacity of an individual or population. |
| fertility | the capacity to conceive or to induce conception; the ability to produce young; the ratio of live births/year in a population to the number of women of child-bearing age |
| function | The action for which a person or thing is particularly fitted or used or for which a thing exists: purpose. |
| immigrate | To enter and settle in a country or region to which one is not native. It is used only to describe people and implies a permanent move, generally across a political boundary. |
| migrate | To change location periodically, especially by moving seasonally from one region to another. Sometimes implies a lack of permanent settlement, especially as a result of seasonal or periodic movement |
| mitigate | The use of reasonable care and diligence in an effort to minimize or avoid injury. To moderate (a quality or condition) in force or intensity; alleviate. |
| mitigation | The elimination or reduction of the frequency, magnitude, or severity of exposure to risks, or minimization of the potential impact of a threat or warning. The act of making a condition or consequence less severe. |
| process | A systematic series of actions directed to some end. A continuous action, operation, or series of changes taking place in a definite manner. |
| remediation | The act or process of correcting a fault or deficiency. The reversal or stopping of damage to the environment. |
| static | of or relating to bodies at rest or forces in equilibrium; showing little change; characterized by a lack of movement, animation, or progression; standing or fixed in one place; stationary |
| ubiquitous | having or seeming to have the ability to be everywhere at once; omnipresent; existing or being everywhere at the same time : constantly encountered : widespread |
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