Science Vocab

6. Meeting current needs without harming the ability of the future generations to meet theirs.
7. The growing connection and dependance of countries around the world through trade, technology, investment, and the movement of people and ideas.
8. The process by which liquid turns to gas at the surface without needing to reach its boiling point.
10. The process where a body of water gets too many nutrients (like fertilizers), causing a massive overgrowth of algae.
11. Organism that cannot make its own food and has to eat other organisms; heterotrophs.

1. All the different populations of living things that live and interact together in the same area.
2. An oceanographic process where strong winds and Earth's rotation push warm surface water away from an area, allowing cold, nutrient-rich water from deep in the ocean to rise and take its place.
3. The introduction of harmful substances or trash into the environment that damages the air, water, or land.
4. Any liquid or solid water that forms in the atmosphere, condenses around tiny particles, and falls to the Earth's surface under the pull of gravity.
5. The ability to do work or cause change.
8. The scientific study of how living organisms interact with each other and with their physical envoirment.
9. Organism that created its own food and energy rich organic compounds from inorganic materials; autotrophs.