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1. Consumption: Using a resource.
2. Natural Resources: Something found in nature that is useful to humans such as coal, timber, minerals, or fresh water.
3. Anthropogenic: Something caused by humans.
The Rainforest:
1. Climate: The average weather conditions in a particular area over a long period of time.
2. Latitude: Distance north or south of the equator, measured in degrees.
3. Biotic: The living parts of an ecosystem.
4. Abiotic: The non-living physical and chemical parts of an ecosystem.
5. Niche: The place where a species lives, as well as all of the interactions of a species with other members of its community.
Human Impact:
1. Troposhere: The lowest, densest part of the atmosphere in which most weather occurs.
2. Trophic level: The feeding positions that an organism occupies in the food chain: producers, primary, secondary, and tertiary consumers. A group of organisms united by obtaining their energy from the same part of the food web.
3. Fossil Fuels: Natural substances made deep within the earth, including the remains of ancient plants and animals, that are used to produce energy. Coal, oil, and natural gas are the three main fossil fuels.
4. Carrying capacity: Carrying capacity is the greatest number of individuals of a species that an area's resources can sustain indefinitely without completely depleting the resources.
5. Greenhouse gases: Gases that trap heat in the atmosphere.
Sloths and the Central American Rainforest:
1. Population: a group of individuals from the same species living in the same area.
2. Symbiotic: The relationship between two separate individuals that depend on each other.
3. Mutualistic: a symbiotic relationship between two or more different species that is beneficial to both.
1. Consumption: Using a resource.
2. Natural Resources: Something found in nature that is useful to humans such as coal, timber, minerals, or fresh water.
3. Anthropogenic: Something caused by humans.
The Rainforest:
1. Climate: The average weather conditions in a particular area over a long period of time.
2. Latitude: Distance north or south of the equator, measured in degrees.
3. Biotic: The living parts of an ecosystem.
4. Abiotic: The non-living physical and chemical parts of an ecosystem.
5. Niche: The place where a species lives, as well as all of the interactions of a species with other members of its community.
Human Impact:
1. Troposhere: The lowest, densest part of the atmosphere in which most weather occurs.
2. Trophic level: The feeding positions that an organism occupies in the food chain: producers, primary, secondary, and tertiary consumers. A group of organisms united by obtaining their energy from the same part of the food web.
3. Fossil Fuels: Natural substances made deep within the earth, including the remains of ancient plants and animals, that are used to produce energy. Coal, oil, and natural gas are the three main fossil fuels.
4. Carrying capacity: Carrying capacity is the greatest number of individuals of a species that an area's resources can sustain indefinitely without completely depleting the resources.
5. Greenhouse gases: Gases that trap heat in the atmosphere.
Sloths and the Central American Rainforest:
1. Population: a group of individuals from the same species living in the same area.
2. Symbiotic: The relationship between two separate individuals that depend on each other.
3. Mutualistic: a symbiotic relationship between two or more different species that is beneficial to both.