Bio Vocab Topic 7
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- Carrying capacity
- the largest population of any single species that an area can support
- Deforestation
- forest destruction that results in human activity
- Direct harvesting
- the destruction of an organism or the removal of an organism from its habitat
- Energy flow
- the movement of energy through an ecosystem
- Fossil fuel
- a fuel, such as coal and gas, that comes from the remains of an organism that lived millions of years ago
- Global warming
- an increase in Earth's average surface temperature caused by an increase in greenhouse gases
- Industrialization
- The process of converting an economy into one in which large-scale manufactoring is the primary economic base
- Nonrenewable resources
- any resource, such as fossil fuels and minerals, that cannot be replaced
- Nuclear fuel
- an energy source that results from splitting atoms
- Ozone shield
- the layer of ozone gas in the upper atmosphere that protects Earth from some of the sun's radiation
- Pollution
- a harmful change in the chemical makeup of soil, water, or air
- Renewable resource
- Earth's resources, such as our food supply and our solar energy, which, given time, can be replaced
- Technology
- all of the practical scientific knowledge that has been used to meet human needs
- Trade-off
- an exchange or agreement made to reach a compromise
- Water cycle
- the process by which water continuously moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back