GREAT BARRlER REEF - Saint Ignatius' Moodle Community
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acidification the process that makes water more acidic<br />
biodiversity the variety of living things in a particular place<br />
bycatch unwanted species caught by fishing nets and lines<br />
catchment run-off rainwater that collects in an area and flows through rivers into the sea<br />
climate change the process by which the world’s climate is changing due to an increase<br />
in the levels of certain gases in the atmosphere<br />
coastal development building on or using the land next to the sea<br />
controversial a subject about which there is strong disagreement<br />
coral bleaching when a major change in the environment stresses hard corals, causing<br />
them to turn white<br />
economy the system of organising goods and services<br />
ecosystem a community of living and non-living things and the interactions between them<br />
extinct having died out<br />
food web a community of species that depend on each other for food<br />
greenhouse gases gases such as carbon dioxide that trap heat in the atmosphere<br />
habitats the places where animals and plants live<br />
introduced species species brought to an area where they are not naturally found<br />
native naturally found in a region or country<br />
native title the recognition by Australian law that Indigenous people still practising their<br />
traditional laws and customs in a place hold rights to that place<br />
overfishing when so many individuals of a fish species are taken from an area that the<br />
population’s future is threatened<br />
pesticide a chemical used to kill pests such as insects<br />
polluted made impure<br />
predator an animal that lives by preying on other animals<br />
renewable something that is not used up and is able to be renewed<br />
salinity the concentration of salt in water or soil<br />
sediment tiny bits of soil and stone that settle to the bottom of water<br />
sustainable able to be used and conserved for the future<br />
traditional owners the people who lived in a place first<br />
trawling catching animals from the sea using a boat dragging a bag-like net<br />
zoning dividing a place into different areas (or zones) for different activities<br />
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