Ecology Word Scramble
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Term | Definition |
wetlands | land that is covered all or part of the time with salt or fresh water. |
Marsh | wetland dominated by aquatic herbaceous emergants. |
Swamp | wetland dominated by trees |
Bog | wetland that accumulates acidic peat |
Ombrotrophic | body of water that was glacier fed. |
ecology | biological science that studies the relationships between living organisms and their environment. |
environmental science | uses info. from social and physical sciences to learn hoe the earth works |
sustainable society | meets the basic resource needs of its people indefinitely with out depleting the natural capital that supplies these resources |
globalization | everything becoming interconnected in the world |
social | increasing exchange of people and modern communications and human mobility |
environmental effects | decentralized network allows for sustainability on a global scale |
sustainable yield | highest rate a renewable resource can be used indefinitely with out reducing supply |
environmental degradation | exceeding a renewable resource's natural replacement rate |
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