Agile: Moving quickly and easily with skills and effort, being able to pivot if needed. This term can apply to thinking, project management, and physical movement.
Alien: Creatures that are not native to a certain area. In astronomy, it refers to beings living on a distant world.
Align it: To arrange or organize things in a patterned order according to apparent lines (Noun: Alignment).
Attachments: Protrusions that can be found on fingers, legs, ears, antennas, or certain creatures, often with specific features.
Beetle: A type of insect in the order Coleoptera, with over 350,000 species. Adults usually have a hard front wing covering the wings used for flight.
Bird: The first winged warm-blooded animal, appearing during the dinosaur era. Birds have feathers and lay eggs that hatch into young in nests. Most birds are capable of flight, although there are exceptions throughout history.
Climate: The general weather conditions in a particular area over a long period of time.
Climate change: A significant, long-term change in the global climate, which can occur naturally or due to human activities like burning fossil fuels or deforestation.
Concrete: Something that is solid and genuine.
Costa Rica: A country in Central America with coastlines on both the Pacific and Caribbean. Known for its extensive rainforests housing various wildlife species.
Develop: To come into existence naturally or through human intervention, such as manufacturing. In biology, it refers to the growth and maturation of an organism from conception to adulthood, often involving physical, chemical, and mental changes.
Ecologist: Scientists who study the relationship between organisms and their physical environment.
Forest: Areas of land primarily covered with trees and other woody plants.
Galaxy: Groups of stars held together by gravity, often containing dark matter. Massive galaxies like the Milky Way can have billions of stars, while smaller ones may have fewer. Some galaxies also contain gas and dust that form new stars.
Generation: A group of individuals born around the same time, belonging to a specific group within a species or other classification.
Habitat: The natural environment where animals and plants typically live, such as deserts, coral reefs, or freshwater lakes.
Hormone: A chemical that acts as a signaling compound in plants, regulating growth, development, and aging.
Hypothesis: A proposed explanation for a phenomenon, which must be rigorously tested in science before acceptance or rejection.
Ice Age: Periods of unusually cold weather in Earth’s history, during which glaciers and ice sheets expand. The most recent Ice Age peaked around 21,500 years ago and ended about 13,000 years ago.
Ice sheet: A wide blanket of ice, often several kilometers thick, covering parts of Antarctica and Greenland.
Indigenous people: Native inhabitants of a region, developing cultures that reflect the resources, climate, and ecosystems of their surroundings.
Invasive: Referring to something that can invade an environment or alter it significantly, such as an invasive species or medical procedure.
Mangrove: A shrub or tree that primarily grows in coastal marshes with long, terrestrial roots.
Migration: The movement of individuals from one area to another, often seasonal or in response to certain factors like climate or food availability.
Moisture: The presence of water in the air as steam or in liquid form, such as droplets on surfaces or in soil.
Nutrients: Essential substances like vitamins, minerals, fats, carbohydrates, and proteins needed by plants, animals, and other organisms for survival.
Octopus: A sea mollusk with a soft body and eight arms equipped with suckers for grasping objects. It is related to squid and has a sharp beak-like mouth.
Orc: A fictional humanoid creature resembling goblins, found in the writings of J.R.R. Tolkien.
Palm: A type of evergreen tree with a large, fan-shaped crown of leaves, with most species being tropical or semi-temperate.
Phenomenon: Extraordinary or unusual events or occurrences.
Physiologist: A scientist specializing in the study of how healthy living organisms function under normal conditions.
Pressure: The force applied uniformly on a surface, measured as force per unit area.
Refuge: A place that provides safety and protection from danger, discomfort, or pursuit, such as caves during storms.
Residents: Members of a community or population living in a specific location (opposite: Visitors).
Solar: Related to the sun or its radiation, derived from the Latin term Sol.
Solar energy: Energy derived from sunlight, which can be captured for heat or converted into electrical energy. Some consider wind power a form of solar energy due to its dependence on solar heating effects.
Seed: A reproductive structure in plants capable of developing into a new organism.
Spruce: A type of evergreen coniferous tree, part of a large genus of species.
Star: A luminous celestial body like the Sun, which is at the center of Earth’s solar system and about 27,000 light years from the Milky Way galaxy center.
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