Flashcard: 2.6 Environmental Consequences of Connectivity, Vocab

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Destruction of vegetation due to excessive grazing by animals.

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Overgrazing

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took care of

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tended

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Very large or great

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Tremendous

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Wearing away of surface soil by water and wind

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Soil erosion

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Decline to a lower condition, quality, or level

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degradation

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Disease brought to Europe by Mongols in the Middle Ages.

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Bubonic Plague

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A learned person

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scholar

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Quick-maturing rice allowing two harvests per season.

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Champa Rice

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Exotic fruit crop from East Asia, key in Spain.

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Citrus crops

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Destruction of forests

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deforestation