Ecology Words
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- Watershed
- an area of land that is drained by a river or other body of water
- homeostasis
- balance of plants and animals in an enviroment
- natural resources
- materials found on earth that can be used by people
- biomes
- A major regional or global community, such as a grassland or desert, characterized by the forms of plant life and the climate.
- Ecosystem
- the system of a biological community and its non-living environment
- conserve
- to keep from loss and to protect
- Habitat
- the place where a plant or animal lives
- renewable
- to make new or as if new again
- Food Web
- complex interaction of food chains in a biological community
- Decomposers
- organisms that break down dead organic matter
- recycle
- to reclaim by using again as a new product
- Estuary
- bosy of water open to the sea in which fresh and saltwater mix
- Erosion
- the wearing away of land surface by wind or water
- Ecology
- the study of interrelationships of living things to one another and to their environment
- food chain
- the sequence in which energy as food is transferred from one group of organisms to another
- Pollution
- to make unclean or impure by introducing wastes