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Any plant used for food or materials
What is a crop?
A form of agriculture that mimics natural ecosystems
What is permaculture?
A species that is not native to an area and lacks natural means of control, out competing native species
What is an invasive species?
Telescope that uses lenses
What is a refractor telescope?
An area that has similar climate and vegetation
What is a biome?
What is a keystone species?
Any natural body outside of Earth's atmosphere.
What is a celestial body?
When waste accumulates to the point of excess
What is pollution?
The type of star that the sun is.
What is a yellow dwarf, or a "G" type star?
The total number of species and population of each in a given area.
What is biodiversity?
The phase of the moon in which the moon is 3/4 illuminated on the left side.
What is a waning gibbous?
The six biomes
What are forests, grasslands, deserts, tundras, freshwater, and saltwater?
The four requirements for a habitat
What is food, water, cover/a place to raise young, and space?
When one celestial body blocks the view of another.
What is an eclipse?
A growing system where more than one crop is grown in an area
What is a polyculture?
The conservation strategy when a species is preserved in its native habitat
What is in-situ conservation?
The tilt of the Earth in degrees
What is 23.4 degrees?
A phase of the moon that comes after a full moon and before a last quarter moon.
What is a waning gibbous?
When tides are weakest when the moon and the sun are at right angles.
What is a neap tide?
The breeding plants and animals, through artificial selection, for traits that produce higher harvests.
What is domestication?
The four threats to biodiversity.
What is habitat loss, over-harvesting, invasive species, and pollution?
an organism whose health reflects the condition of the environment.
What is an indicator species?
The seven levels of the IUCN's species population status.
What is Least Concern, Near Threatened, Vulnerable, Endangered, critically endangered, Extinct in the wild, and extinct.
Domestic animals that provide humans with several useful products and services
What is livestock?
The four types of agriculture.
What is apiculture, livestock, aquaculture, and crops?