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Glossary deforestation Destruction of
forests
Here are the meanings of some words that endangered When an animal
are useful for you to know when learning or plant species is in danger
of dying out
about forests.
environment Place where an
animal or plant lives
adapted When an animal camouflage Colors or
or plant becomes better patterns on an animal’s equator Imaginary line
suited to its habitat. For skin, fur, or feathers that around the center of the
example, a penguin’s thick help it blend in with Earth that is equal distance
feathers keep it warm in the environment from the north and
icy places south poles
carnivore Animal that eats
bacteria Tiny living only meat fossil Remains of a dead
things that can be found animal or plant, which
everywhere on Earth, climate Area that has has been preserved in
such as inside food, soil, particular weather rock over time
or even the human body conditions
fuel Substance that is burned
biodiversity Variety of conifer Type of tree with for heat or power
plants and animals that cones and needlelike leaves
live in an area fungi Living things such
conservation Trying to stop as mushrooms and molds
bonding When families an animal or plant from that break down dead
become emotionally attached becoming extinct plants and animals to
to one another make their food
consumer Animal that eats
plants or other animals habitat Place where a plant
or animal lives
crops Group of plants that
are grown as food herbivore Animal that eats
only plant matter
deciduous tree Tree that
loses its leaves in winter herd Group of animals
decomposer Living insulated When something
thing, often a fungus, is covered in a material that
that breaks down dead does not allow heat to pass
matter to create nutrients easily through it
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