Top 84 terms related to Environment

TOP 84 ENVIRONMENT - RELATED TERMS: THEIR MEANINGS

1. Abiotic Components: Non-living components in Environment, like sunshine, air, water, soil, etc.
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3. Acid rain: Rain has a potent combination of sulphuric acid, nitric acid, and other harmful pollutants.

1. Afforestation: The practice of growing forests, trees, etc.
2. Algae: Straightforward plants with no real leaves, stems, or roots that grow in or near water.
3. Aquatic: About water; growing (or found) in or near water.
4. Aquifer: A layer of rock or soil that can hold or absorb water.

1. Autotrophs: Organisms that produce their food (as plants do from sunlight).
2.  Bacteria: Simplest and smallest forms of life, present in the air, water, and soil. They often cause diseases.
3. Bio-diversity: Variety of life (animals & plants) that make a balanced environment.

1. Biogeography: Distribution of plants and animals in different parts of the earth.
2. Biome: Large geographical regions having similar ecosystems.
3. Biosphere: Parts of the earth and atmosphere where plants and animals live.
4. Biotic: Living organisms like micro-organisms, plants, animals, etc.
5. Carnivore: Flesh-eating animals.

1. Cell: The smallest unit of living matter that has an independent existence.
2. Chlorophyll: Green substance in plants that produce its food out of sunlight.
3. Conservation: Protection of something from getting damaged or destroyed.
4. Contraceptive: Device or medicine for preventing pregnancy.
5.  Coral reef: A long line of rocks near the surface of the sea.

1. Depletion: Drastic reduction of something so that there is hardly anything left.
2. Deciduous: Plants or trees that shed off their leaves annually.
3.  Decomposers: Organisms that break down the dead matter, e.g., fungi, algae, microbe, etc.
4. Disaster: Natural calamity, like a flood, drought, earthquake, etc.
5. Deforestation: Cutting down trees, clearing forests.

1. Desertification: The process that leads to the creation of deserts.
2. Detrivores: Organisms that feed on the waste matter.
3. Drip System: Watering individual plants to save water.-
4. Eco-friendly: Things that do not harm or damage the Environment.
5. Ecology: Study of the relation of living organisms with their Environment.
6. Ecosystem: An individual unit of Environment.
7. Endemic: Life form that is restricted to a particular area.

1. Environment:  The natural world in which people, animals & plants live.
2. Erosion: Damage, like soil erosion, damaging of soil.
3.  Estuary: The area where a river falls into the sea or ocean.
4. Ethics: Sense of right or wrong.
5. Evolution: A slow and gradual process by which new living organisms develop out of the earlier forms.
6.  Exotic: Unfamiliar, belonging to a distant land.
7.  Extinction: Destruction, ceasing to exist.

1. Fauna: Different kinds of animals in an area.
2. Flora: Different types of plants or vegetation in an area.
3.  Fossil fuels: Natural fuels like petrol, diesel, gas, coal are found under the earth.
4. Fungi: A plant without leaves, growing on decaying matter.
5. Genetics: Related to genes. Genes are the units in the cells of a living being that control its physical characteristics.
6. Habitat: The place where an organism lives.
7. Herbivore: Animal that lives on plants or vegetation.
8.  Humus: A substance formed from decaying or dead matter.
9. Hydrosphere: That part of the biosphere where water is found.
10. Leaching: The process of removing a soluble substance from a solid surface by passing water through it.
11. Lithosphere: Crust of earth.
12. Livestock: Domestic animals like goat, cow, buffalo, etc.

1.  Mangroves: Forests growing in coastal areas.
2. Mega diversity: Having a large variety of environmental conditions.
3.  Mechanism: A system of parts in a living thing that jointly performs a function.
4. Metabolism: The chemical processes in living things that change food etc., into energy and material for growth. 
5. Mollusks: A creature with a soft body, with a hard outer shell, like snails, slugs, etc.
6. Musk: A substance with a strong pleasant smell, produced naturally by the musk deer.
7. Nutrient: A substance that is needed to keep a living thing alive and to help it grow.
8. Omnivores: Animals that are both herbivores and carnivores.
9. Ornithology: Science that studies birds.

1. Parasite: A tiny animal or plant that depends on other animals or plants for its food.
2. Plankton: Microscopic, floating organisms in the water.
3. Poaching: Taking illegally from protected areas.
4. Radioactive: Giving out radiations harmful for living beings.
5. Reforestation: Repeat growing of trees in areas that had been cleared of earlier trees.

1. Reptiles: Crawling animals with scale-covered skins, like snakes, crocodiles, tortoises, etc.
2. Reservoir: A place where the liquid is stored before use.
3. Resources: A supply of something that can be used with profit.
4. Respiration: The act of breathing.
5. Salination: Concentration of excessive salts in the soil.
6. Scavenging: The act of feeding on dead bodies of animals, as is done by hawks, eagles, etc.
7. Smelting: Process of extracting ore by heating and melting.
8. Species: A group of animals, plants that can breed with each other.
9. Stratosphere: The portion of the atmosphere that has an ozone layer to protect us from the ultraviolet rays of the sun.
10. Sustainable: That which can continue for a long time.

1. Taxonomy: A particular system of classifying things.
2. Temperate: Having a mild temperature, without extremes of heat or cold.
3. Topography: The physical features of an area of land, especially its rivers and mountains.
4. Transpiration: Water passing out of the plants in the form of vapors.
5. Trophic level: A level or stage marking the food chain.

1. Tubectomy: Surgical method of sterilization on females (to check population increase).
2. Vasectomy: Surgical method of sterilization on males (to check population increase).
3. Vulnerable: Weak and easily hurt.
4. Vulture: A large bird that eats the flesh of dead animals.
5. Zoological Garden: A zoo where animals are kept for public display and study, and protection.