vocabulary for the Ecology unit
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| 795274827 | Aquatic | Of or relating to water. | |
| 795274828 | Boundary | A line that marks the limits of an area; a dividing line | |
| 795274829 | Biodiversity | The variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem | |
| 795274830 | Biomass | The total quantity or weight of oorganisms in a given area or volume. | |
| 795274831 | Conserve | Protect (something esp. an environmentally or cultrually important place or thing) from harm or destruction | |
| 795274832 | Consumer | A person or thing that eats or uses something. | |
| 795274833 | Closed System | matter may not cross the boundary | |
| 795274834 | Decomposer | An organism esp. a soil bacterium, fngus, or invertebrate, that decomposes organic material | |
| 795274835 | Endangered | a species seriously at risk of extinction | |
| 795274836 | Estuary | The tidal mouth of a river, where the tide meets the stream. | |
| 795274837 | Field study | a piece of research undertake outside the laboratory or place of learning, ussually in a natural environment or among the general public | |
| 795274838 | Finite | having an end or limit | |
| 795274839 | Food web | A diagram that represents all the movement of energy between the living organisms of an environment | |
| 795274840 | Fungus | a single-celled or multicellular organism without chlorophyll that reproduces by spores and lives by absorbing nutrients form organic matter. | |
| 795274841 | Microorganism | a microscopic organism | |
| 795274842 | Habitat | The natural conditions and environment were a plant/animal lives | |
| 795274843 | Host | An organism infected by a parasite | |
| 795274844 | Impact | The force of collision | |
| 795274845 | Invasive | Growing aggressively in an area preventing growth of surrounding plants | |
| 795274846 | Mammals | Class of warn-blooded vertebrate animals | |
| 795274847 | Mineral | Inorganic substance in nature | |
| 795274848 | Native | Born or origination somewhere | |
| 795274849 | Niche | The role of an organism within its natural environment | |
| 795274850 | Non-native | Not origination in that place | |
| 795274851 | Nutrient | A substance that provide nourishment | |
| 795274852 | Offspring | The descendant of the next generation | |
| 795274853 | Prey | Animals hunted by other animals | |
| 795274854 | Parasite | Organism living on another | |
| 795274855 | Population density | Measurement of population per unit or volume | |
| 795274856 | Population | is a group of individuals of the same species that live in a particular area and interbreed | |
| 795274857 | Predator | Carnivorous animals or destructive organism | |
| 795274858 | Resource | A naturally occurring material | |
| 795274859 | Succession | A sequence of people or thing after the other in time | |
| 795274860 | Sustainability | Maintaining ecological balance | |
| 795274861 | Require | To have something as a necessary precondition |
