B6 - Key Vocab

Biodiversity - Variety of living things in the area.

Ecosystem - Living things and the environment around them.

Food Chain - Order of ‘who eats who’

Food Web - Many food chains linked together

Sustainable - Can continue long term without damage

Ecotourism - Tourism focused on nature with minimal damage

Predator - Animal that hunts others

Prey - Animal that is eaten by predators

Interspecific - Between different species

Intraspecific - Within the same species

Selective Breeding - choosing the best animals/plants to reproduce.

Antibiotic - Medicine that kills bacteria

Pesticide - Chemical that kills pests

Eutrophication - too many nutrients in water → causes algae to grow →uses up a lot of oxygen and animals die.

Indigenous - Species naturally living in the area

Non - indigenous -