Endangered Species Flashcards
The ongoing relationship between living things and their environment
Ecosystem
Measures to protect and restore the natural world
Conservation effort
Animal or plants that are likely to go extinct
Endangered species
A person who cares about the natural world and makes an effort to protect or raise awareness for its needs
Environmentalist
The loss of a species in this world
Extinction
Food chain
A group of organisms that feed off each other
Global warming
The gradual increase in temperature on earth
Recover
To help a certain species repopulate an area
Reforestation
The planting and growth of new trees
Vulnerable
Likely to be wounded, hurt, o to face injury or danger
Wildlife
Plants and animals living in a natural environment
Polar bears are endangered
global warming causes the ice to melt
Bears live mainly on the sea ice, they feed themselves thanks to ice,
When the ice starts to melt, polar bears move to land and live off their stored fat
The ice melts earlier and forms later than usual, this results in a shorter feeding season for the polar bear.
Some risk their lives to find ice, if they have to swim too far, they will drown from exhaustion and hunger
Oil spill in the sea
Vertido de petroleo en el mar
Melting ice in the North Pole
Deshielo
Drought
Sequía