Share Insights 7 - Environment glossary
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The natural environment in which an animal or plant usually lives:
a habitat
A plant or animal that has had some of its genes changed scientifically
genetically modified
A chemical substance made and used for killing insects, especially those that eat plants
insecticide
The practice of supplying land with water so that crops and plants will grow
irrigation
The number and types of plants and animals that exist in a particular area or in the world generally, or the problem of protecting this
biodiversity
The frozen water at the very top or bottom of our globe
polar ice cap
to keep and protect something from damage, change, or waste
conserve
the cutting down of trees in a large area, or the destruction of forests by people
deforestation
able to decay naturally and in a way that is not harmful, for example, packaging or certain household chemicals can be like this
biodegradable
a series of living things that are connected because each group of things eats the group below it in the chain
food chain
a situation in which something no longer exists
extinction
a way of buying and selling products that makes certain that the people who produce the goods receive a fair price
fair trade
naturally existing in a place or country rather than arriving from another place (usually used to refer to people, plants or animals)
indigenous
water that falls from the clouds towards the ground, especially as rain or snow:
precipitation
farming aka
agriculture
the systems for taking dirty water and other waste products away from buildings in order to protect people's health
sanitation
