Comprehensive Science Vocabulary

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Human Impact

• people's actions that have consequences for the environment

• the presence of substance in the environment that harms it

• process by which a natural habitat becomes incapable of supporting its natural species

• tree felling

• excessive land use

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

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pollution

• people's actions that have consequences for the environment

• the presence of substance in the environment that harms it

• process by which a natural habitat becomes incapable of supporting its natural species

• tree felling

• excessive land use

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habitat destruction

• people's actions that have consequences for the environment

• the presence of substance in the environment that harms it

• process by which a natural habitat becomes incapable of supporting its natural species

• tree felling

• excessive land use

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

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deforestation

• people's actions that have consequences for the environment

• the presence of substance in the environment that harms it

• process by which a natural habitat becomes incapable of supporting its natural species

• tree felling

• excessive land use

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

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overloading of the terrain

• people's actions that have consequences for the environment

• the presence of substance in the environment that harms it

• process by which a natural habitat becomes incapable of supporting its natural species

• tree felling

• excessive land use

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

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native species

• species that naturally belong to a place

• species that could over-reproduce due to the fact that the new region doesn't have a natural predator to keep the population down

• fuels extracted from inside Earth that are nonrenewable natural resources

• gases found in the atmosphere that, due to climate change, produce an excessive temperature increase

• energy that comes from a source that never runs out, or is never used up

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exotic species

• species that naturally belong to a place

• species that could over-reproduce due to the fact that the new region doesn't have a natural predator to keep the population down

• fuels extracted from inside Earth that are nonrenewable natural resources

• gases found in the atmosphere that, due to climate change, produce an excessive temperature increase

• energy that comes from a source that never runs out, or is never used up

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fossils fuels

• species that naturally belong to a place

• species that could over-reproduce due to the fact that the new region doesn't have a natural predator to keep the population down

• fuels extracted from inside Earth that are nonrenewable natural resources

• gases found in the atmosphere that, due to climate change, produce an excessive temperature increase

• energy that comes from a source that never runs out, or is never used up

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greenhouse houses

• species that naturally belong to a place

• species that could over-reproduce due to the fact that the new region doesn't have a natural predator to keep the population down

• fuels extracted from inside Earth that are nonrenewable natural resources

• gases found in the atmosphere that, due to climate change, produce an excessive temperature increase

• energy that comes from a source that never runs out, or is never used up

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

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renewable energy

• species that naturally belong to a place

• species that could over-reproduce due to the fact that the new region doesn't have a natural predator to keep the population down

• fuels extracted from inside Earth that are nonrenewable natural resources

• gases found in the atmosphere that, due to climate change, produce an excessive temperature increase

• energy that comes from a source that never runs out, or is never used up