Animal Agriculture, Plant Agriculture, Land Biomes

Process of growing crops and raising cattle

• Agriculture

• Slash and Burn

• Sedentary

• Deforestation

a grassy plain in tropical and subtropical regions with trees

• savanna

• tundra

• rainforest

• temperate forest

the removal of trees faster than forests can replace themselves

• deforestation

• acid rain

• urbanization

• poaching

A biome in which the winters are cold but summers are mild enough to allow the ground to thaw

• taiga

• temperate forest

• tropical rainforest

• temperate rainforest

a trait that helps an organism survive and reproduce

• adaptation

• mining

• logging

• acid rain

a vast treeless plain in the arctic regions between the ice cap and the tree line

• tundra

• taiga

• tropical rainforest

• temperate forest

illegal hunting of protected animals

• poaching

• overharvesting

• mining

• logging

Rain containing nitric and sulfuric acids

• acid rain

• urbanization

• poaching

• mining

an arid region with little or no vegetation

• desert

• savanna

• tropical rainforest

• taiga

The tallest layer of the rain forest peaking over the canopy that receives the most sunlight.

• understory

• emergent layer

• ground level

• temperate zone