Biology
Organisms of the same group or species who live in the same geographical area and are capable of interbreeding
A Population
The way of life of a species.
Niche
Practices that protect animals, plants and the environment.
Conservation
Activities that reduce the amount of pollution generated by a process, whether it is consumer consumption, driving, or industrial production
Pollution Prevention
A vehicle that uses two or more distinct power sources to move the vehicle.
Hybrid Vehicle
A group of interacting living organisms sharing a populated environment.
Community
An ecological or environmental area that is inhabited by a particular species of animal, plant, or other type of organism.
Habitat
Any species (including animals, plants, fungi, etc.) which are vulnerable to endangerment in the near future
Threatened Species
sites abandoned or underused industrial and commercial facilities available for re-use.
Brownfield
A device that converts the chemical energy from a fuel into electricity through a chemical reaction with oxygen or another oxidizing agent.
Fuel Cell
A community of living organisms (plants, animals and microbes) in conjunction with the nonliving components of their environment
Ecosystem
The area of land where all of the water that is under it or drains off of it goes into the same place.
Watershed
An animal or plant species in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range
Endangered Species
A gas produced when ultraviolet radiation interacts in the stratosphere. A gas that protects the earth from harmful UV radiation which damages skin, eyes, and the immune system of life forms.
Ozone
Energy that is derived from running water.
Hydropower
The part of the earth and its atmosphere in which living organisms exist or that is capable of supporting life.
Biosphere
An area within which the air frequently is confined or channeled, with all parts of the area being subject to similar conditions of air pollution.
Airshed
The end of an organism or of a group of organisms (taxon), normally a species.
Extinction
Pollution that, unlike pollution from industrial and sewage treatment plants, comes from many diffuse sources.
Non Point Source Pollution
Energy that is derived from the sun.
Solar energy
A close and often long-term interaction between two or more different biological species.
Symbiosis
The man who came up with the theory of evolution.
Charles Darwin
The law that made it illegal to kill birds without paying the State.
The Lacey Act
The first National Park in the US.
Yellowstone
Energy that come from the splitting of atoms (fission)
Nuclear Energy