Environmental Glossary

• Agrosphere - Part of the bio-sphere where people organize food production.

• Aerosols - Dispersed particles in the air from, liquid or solid (smoke, fog, dust).

• Aeropollution - Ait pollution.

• Algology - Science about algae.

• Areal - the habitat of one species.

• Atmosphere - air layer around the Earth containing steam and various particles and gases.

• Bentos - living community on the bottom of a lake or sea.

• Bio-accumulation - the ability of some organisms to accumulate certain chemical substances in particular tissues of their body.

• Biodiversity - total number of differenr species in an environment community.

• Biocenosis - colony of vegetation and living population that inhabit a certain territory within a particular ecco-system.

• Fertilizers - industrial products containing nutrients necessary for growth and increase of yields of cultivated plants.

• Vegetation - total world of plants on one region.

• Ecco-system - entity where internal physical, chemical and biological processes occur.

• Ecology - biological science concerned about the relations between organisms and surrounding environment, between the organisms themselves as well as the regularities based upon these relations.

• Emission - the discharge of harmful substances from facilities - sources of pollution (factory chimneys, motors, pipelines etc.) into the air, water and soil.

• Endemics - species with more or less limited areals.

• Entomology - Science concerned about insects.

• Zoo-cenosis - all living beings, starting from the smallest microorganisms and insects and all the way up to the most complex forms (girafs, bears etc.).

• Imission - occurrence of gaseous and fluid substances in the layer just beneath the surface of the Earth.

• Distinctive species - species connected to a certain community.

• Micology - Science concerned about fungus

• Microbiology - Science concerned about microorganisms.

• Population - individual groups of the same species inhabiting a region in a specific period linked between each other.

• Phytocenosis - vegetation community.