Unit 5 Vocab

What is it called when equilibrium and a harmonious coexistence takes place among organisms in an ecosystem.

• Ecological balance

• Deforestation

• Ecological imbalance

• Natural disaster

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Resources that can meet our energy needs now and in the future without harming our environment or health are to said to have 

• conservation

• Sustainability

• green

• Natural disaster

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

The monitoring, protection, preservation, maintenance of a natural area – this can include restoration, rehabilitation, and enhancement of that area. 

• Green

• Deforestation

• Stewardship

• Natural disaster

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Materials found in the environment that are useful to people

• Natural Resources

• Conservation

• Natural disaster

• Green

Tags

NGSS.4-ESS3-1

NGSS.5-ESS3-1

Being friendly towards the environment- protecting, conserving, not harming. 

• Natural resources

• Green

• Natural disaster

• Sustainability

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Another name for a renewable energy resource 

• Alternative

• Natural disaster

• Green

• Stewardship

The clearing of forests to obtain lumber and provide space for either agricultural zones or urban development.

• conservation

• Deforestation

• Natural disaster

• stewardship

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Any species (animal, plants, fungi, etc) where there is a limited number remaining which are threatened to become extinct.

• Endangered

• Extinct species

• Threatened species

• non-native species

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS2-7

NGSS.HS-LS4-5

When a species has completely died out.

• endangered species

• threatened species

• green

• extinct species

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

Gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor that trap the sun's energy and cause the greenhouse effect

• Greenhouse Gas

• Acid precipitation

• Ozone

• Natural resources

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-ESS3-5