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| food production | Connections among diet, current food and food animal production systems, the environment, and public health. |
| harvest | A crop or yield of one growing season. |
| habitat | The place where an organism lives and that provides the things the organism needs. |
| competition | The struggle between organisms for the limited resources in a habitat. |
| population | All the members of one species in a particular area. |
| environment | The air, water, minerals, organisms, and all other external factors surrounding and affecting a given organism at any time. |
| basic needs | The fundamental requirements that serve as the foundation for survival. |
| human | A human being, especially a person as distinguished from an animal. |
| resources | A source of supply, support, or aid, especially one that can be readily drawn upon when needed. |
| water supply | The supply of purified water available to a community. |
| air quality | The measurement of the pollutants in the air; a description of healthiness and safety of the atmosphere. |
| energy production | Production of energy from renewable and nonrenewable resources to power cities, homes, and people. |
| waste management | The process involved in dealing with the waste of humans and organisms, including minimization, handling, processing, storage, recycling, transport, and final disposal. |
| land use | The management and modification of the natural environment or wilderness into built environment such as settlements and semi-natural habitats. |
| population | All the individuals of one species in a given area. |
| organism | A form of life considered as an entity; an animal, plant, fungus, protista, or bacteria. |
| habitat destruction | The process in which natural habitat is rendered functionally unable to support the species present. |
| habitat fragmentation | Alteration of an organism’s preferred environment causing population fragmentation and ecosystem decay. |
