Ecology PSSA Terms
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| Biotechnology Engineering | The application of biotechnology to design
processes, products and structures that improve the quality of life.
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| Consumer | Those organisms that obtain energy by feeding on other organisms and their remains.
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| Decomposer | An organism, often microscopic in size, that obtains nutrients by consuming dead organic matter,
thereby making nutrients accessible to other organisms; examples of decomposers include fungi,
scavengers, rodents and other animals.
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| Engineering | The application of scientific, physical, mechanical and mathematical principles to design
processes, products and structures that improve the quality of life
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| Ergonomical | Of or relating to the design of equipment or devices to fit the human body’s control, position,
movement and environment.
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| Hazardous Waste | A solid that, because of its quantity or concentration or its physical, chemical or infectious
characteristics, may cause or pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or
the environment when improperly
managed.
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| Incinerating | Burning to ashes; reducing to ashes.
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| Nonpoint Source Polution | Contamination that originates from many locations that all discharge into a location (e.g., a lake,
stream, land area).
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| Point Source Pollution | Pollutants discharged from a single identifiable location (e.g., pipes, ditches, channels, sewers,
tunnels, containers of various types).
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| Risk Management | A strategy developed to reduce or control the chance of harm or loss to one’s health or life; the
process of identifying, evaluating, selecting and implementing actions to reduce risk to human
health and to ecosystems.
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| Waste Stream | The flow of (waste) materials from generation, collection and separation to disposal.
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