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Date
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Rainforest
Vocabulary Quiz
Directions: Match
the vocabulary words on the left with the definitions on the right.
| 1. ecology |
The act of preserving; to keep from being used up or lost. |
| 2. exploit
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Preparing and using land to raise crops. |
| 3. vegetation |
To maintain or prolong. |
| 4. cultivate |
To make use of something. |
| 5. missionary
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Materials that are supplied by nature which are necessary for life.
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| 6. precipitation |
The balanced relationship of living things and their environment. |
| 7. sustain |
Someone who is sent to work on a religious mission. |
| 8. natural
resource |
The distribution of moisture in the forms of rain, snow, sleet, ice or hail. |
| 9. conservation |
Something that originates in the region or area where it's found. |
| 10. indigenous |
Something that is valued as medicine. |
| 11. medicinal |
The growth of plants. |
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