Vocabulary:

Ecosystems are a community of living things and the environment in which they live.

A National Park is piece of land owned by United States Federal Government, which is reserved for conservation and public enjoyment.

Resource extraction is taking a product from the land or water to sell.

Development is the growth of human activities into once undeveloped spaces.

A luthier person who builds stringed instruments.

Climate is day-to-day weather data tracked over years.

Greenhouse gases are the gas layer above the earth that traps in heat and protects us from the light of the sun.

Carbon is a non-metallic element found in all living things.

An element is a substance that cannot be broken down to simpler substances.

A prairie is an open grassland ecosystem.

Temperate rain forest is a forest of evergreen and broadleaf trees growing near an ocean, which receives large amounts of rain. Below the trees are layers of shrubs, ferns, and mosses which create a lush ecosystem.

Biomass is the carbon in living and dead trees, shrubs, fallen leaves and debris in a forest and its soil.

Old growth forest is a diverse undisturbed forest in which trees can attain great size.