Agriculture
An animal that attacks or feeds on a plant
Pest
The legal limit on the amount of fish that can be caught
quota
where two or more plates meet
Plate boundary
the movement of water up plants and its subsequent loss as water from their leaves
Transpiration
Growing plants without soil, with the nutrients the plant needs dissolved in water, this technique is often used in conjuntion with a growing blueprint
Hydroponics
The clodes end of a fishing net
Cod end
A large wave created by ocean floor displacement or landslides
Tsunami
Derived from living organism
organic
The ability of living organism to survive when exposed to a toxic chemical
Resistance
Animals caught by fishers that are not the intended target of their fishing effort
Bycatch
A piece of lithosphere that moves slowly on the asthenosphere
tectonic plate
An organism that carries a disease-producing organism, such as the mosquito
vector
A sequence events starting with enrichment of water by mineral nutrients or organic matter that leads to a reduction in osygen levels in the water and the death of fish and other animals
Eutrophication
When the number of fish that is caught is greater than the rate at wich the fish reproduce leading to a fall in fish numbers in an area
Overfishing
The point on the Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake
Epicenter
The purification of water by pumping it at high pressure through a fine membrane
Reverse osmosis
The artificial development of flat areas in a sloping terrain
Terracing
Small organism in the sea that can make their own food and upon with almost other sea creatures depend for teir food
Phytoplankton
The layer of the Earth below the lithosphere, it is hotter and weaker than the lithosphere above and is capable of plastic flow.
Asthenosphere
the removal of salt from water
Desalination