Ecology~ JERFSA~ Vocab
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CarlyRae16 on April 11, 2012
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Viagara | Is an important environmental invention to save all these animals - they killed tigers for their bladders and for "trditional" medicines as well |
| Albatras | (bird that lives in the middle of the ocean)(wingspand EXCEEDING 6ft) |
| M~? | Maximum |
| Y~? | Yield |
| S~? | Sustained |
| Maximum ? | The most |
| Yield ? | That you can take |
| Sustained ? | From nature. Without damaging it's ability to give you more in the future |
| M.Y.S. defintion ? | The most, that you can take, from nature. Without damaging it's ability to give you more in the future |
| Extrapated | Localized extinction |
| DDT | An insecticide that is also toxic to animals and humans, toxin used to kill bugs, but had larger effects on large birds or pray through biomagnification |
| Hand Fern | Is a kind of fern that looks like te shape of the hand |
| Pollution | Undesirable state of the natural environment being contaminated with harmful substances as a consequence of human activities |
| AP= | Australlion Pine |
| BP= | Brazillian Pepper |
| Big M= | Melaleuca |
| Feral | Animal that has been domesticated living in the wild |
| The Impact Of The Zoo~ Negative Impact | Collecting rare animals |
| The Impact Of The Zoo~ Positive Impact | Arabian Orax~ is extremely difficultto kill these animals, they are just too sneaky |
| Refuges | A big area where they put endangered animals to help bring them back |
| Gene Bank | Where they keep sperm and eggs in controlled temperatures to use later when not many kinds of that animal are left |
| Botanial Garden | Went to places that were about to be bulldozed and torn down |
| Captive Breeding | Take an animal to a place where it is safe and breed it |
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