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Unit 15 Vocabulary
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- 1Carbon CycleThe way element carbon is passed between living and nonliving things.
- 2ExtinctThe name we give when a species is no longer exists.
- 3BiodiversityThe variety of species or kinds of life that exists.
- 4Greenhouse EffectIncrease of temperature because of increase of carbon dioxide on Earth.
- 5DeforestationRefers to the cutting down of trees which increases carbon dioxide levels.
- 6Natural resourcesAny resource nature provides such as wood, oil, propane.
- 7Endangered SpeciesSpecies that are in danger of being extinct of no longer alive.
- 8EvaporationThe change of the physical state of matter from liquid phase into gas phase (vapor). Part of the water cycle.
- 9CondensationCondensation is the change of the physical state of matter from gas phase into liquid phase, and is the reverse of evaporation. Part of the water cycle.
- 10TranspirationThe exhalation of water vapor through the stomata. The stomates are the little pores underneath leaves, open and close using guard cells.
- 11PrecipitationPrecipitation is water released from clouds in the form of rain, freezing rain, sleet, snow, or hail.
- 12Nitrogen-fixing BacteriaThese bacteria are found in the soil; they convert atmospheric nitrogen into a useable form of nitrogen that plants can use.