Theme Ecology

Vocabulary Word List for Ecology (406)

• A

  absorption, access, adaptation, admire, advocate, alternatives, announcement, anticipation, anxiety, appliance, appreciation, aquatic, atmosphere, attraction, audience, awesome

• B

  backlash, balance, benefit, biodegradable, biodiversity, biota, boost, building, buzz

• C

  calamity, canvas, capacity, celebration, celestial, certify, change, clean, clean-up, climate, coastal, collection, combustible, commitment, communication, community, compliance, composting, concept, conference, confidence, conservation, conserve, conserve, construct, consumption, contribution, convenience, conviction, cooling, costs, creation, crucial, culture, curb, current

• D

  damage, deft, deposits, design, detection, devastation, development, difference, direction, discovery, disposable, diversity, documentary, domination, dramatize, drastic, dynamic

• E

  earth, eco-friendly, ecological, ecology, ecosystem, effective, efficiency, elation, electrifying, elimination, emissions, emotion(al), energy, energy efficient, energy star, enthusiasm, enviro-home, environment, environs, envision, eradicate, euphoria, evaluate, evergreen, evidence, evolution, exchange, exclusive, expanse, experience, exploration, extreme

• F

  fauna, feature, fertile, fibrous, fields, filter, fisheries, flora, flourish, fluorescent light bulb, foam, food chain, forecast, forestry, fossil fuels

• G

  gallons, galvanize, geothermal heat, glass, global, global warming, goal, granite, grasslands, gray water, green, greenhouse, groundwater, guard, guideline

• H

  habitat, harbor, harvest, healthy, heating, heliotrope, hemp, high-efficiency, humanity, humidity, hygiene

• I

  impact, improvements, incorporate, indigenous, influence, inhabit, inhabitant, initiative, innovative, inquiry, insight, inspiration, insulation, intense, interference, investigation, irrigation

• J

  journalists, judgment

• K

  keen

• L

  land form, land trust, landmark, landscape, layer, leakage, lifestyle, light, limits, low-flow shower, low-flow toilet

• M

  maintenance, management, marine, maritime, marsh, materials, maximization, meadow, measurement, metamorphosis, minimize, moratorium, motion, mountains, movement, mulch

• N

  nascent, national, native, native plants, natural, nature, nouveau, nutrients

• O

  objective, observations, official, orientation, original, outdoors, ozone

• P

  panel, parkland, passionate, peninsula, performance, peril, perpetual, perspective, planet, planting, plants, plastic, plumbing, popular, popularity, powerful, precipitation, preservation, pressure, prevention, pride, primeval, pristine, prize, problems, proclaim, prognosis, program, progress, projection, protection, protest, public, pure

• Q

  quality, quest, questions, quiet

• R

  rainwater, reclamation, recognition, record, rectify, recycle, recycled tire rubber, reduction, reflect, refuge, rehabilitation, reliance, remains, renewable, rescue, research, reserves, reservoir, resilience, resistance, resolve, resource, respect, restoration, reusable, revitalize, revival, revolutionary, rights, role

• S

  safeguard, safety, salute, salvage, sanitation, save, scientist, sea, sea floor, sealing, sediment, sentiment, shade, shade trees, shelter, shortages, skepticism, slide, soil-covered roof, solar, solar panels, solar power, soluble, sonar, spatial, species, speculation, speech, spiel, splendid, sponges, spotlight, spray foam, standards, staples, staunch, stewardship, structure, success, sun, sunlight, supplies, support, surface, survival, survive, sustainable, sustainable, symbiosis, symptoms, synergy

• T

  tactic, task, technique, technology, temperature, terrain, terrestrial, thrive, tidal pool, tides, timber, toil, tolerance, topography, transformation, treatment, tributary, tribute, triumph, tropical, trumpet

• U

  ultimate, underwater, undeveloped, unique, universal, upgrade, uplifting, useful, utilitarian

• V

  valley, vapor, variety, vegetation, ventilation, venue, versatile, vested interest, vigilance, violation, visible, vision, vista, volatile, volt, volunteers, vulnerable

• W

  waste, water, water saving, waterfall, watershed, waterway, weather, wells, wetlands, wilderness, wildlife, wind, wind power, winner, wood, world, world wide, world-class

• X

  xeriscape

• Y

  yield

• Z

  zealous, zero-tolerance, zone

• E

  EPA

• F

  FCS (Forest Stewardship Council)

• T

  Trex materials