| A | B |
|---|
| sustainability | making sure that there are resources for everyone every generation |
| biotic | living things in the environment |
| abiotic | non living things in the environment |
| competition | 2 or more organisms trying to get the same resource |
| predation | one animal hunts another |
| mutualism | 2 organisms sharing the same resources and both benefit |
| commensalism | 2 organisms interacting and only 1 benefits - the other doesn't care |
| parasitism | 1 organism benefits and the other is harmed |
| natural selection | survival of the fittest |
| selectively cutting | only cutting some trees |
| clear cutting | cutting all the trees |
| biodiversity | describes the numbers and types of living things |
| producer | plants |
| herbivore | plant eaters |
| food chain | series showing who is eating what |
| consumer | must eat something to gain energy |
| carnivore | meat eaters |
| photosynthesis | uses sunlight to produce sugar and oxygen |
| oxygen | given off during photosynthesis |
| carbon dioxide | needed for photosynthesis |
| environmental science | studies human impact on the environment |
| endangered species act | legislation that makes it illegal to kill or take the habitat of certain organisms |
| karner blue butterfly | endangered animal found in NW Indiana |
| cooperation | needed for environmental restoration |
| sun | ultimate source of energy in the environment |
