(ǝ dapt): To change so as to fit a new or specific use or situation.

(klī mǝt): The average weather conditions of a particular place or region over a period of years.

(kǝn sen(t) sǝs): General agreement by most of those concerned.

(kǝn sǝrv): To avoid wasteful or destructive use of something.

(i kä lǝ jist): A scientist who studies the relationship between living things and their environment.

(ik stiŋk shən): The state of no longer existing.

(ha bә tat): The place or environment where a plant or animal naturally or normally lives and grows.

(land ma nij mǝnt): Decisions and actions involving natural lands to achieve specific purposes.

(ma mǝl): Any of a class of warm-blooded vertebrates that include human beings and all other animals that nourish their young with milk produced by mammary glands and have the skin usually more or less covered with hair.

(nän nā tiv): Not naturally occurring in an area.

(ran dǝm lē): So that each possibility has a definite and especially an equal probability of occurring.

(skrǝb): An area of land covered with a thick growth of small or stunted shrubs or trees.

(spē sēz or spē shēz): A category of living things that ranks below a genus, is made up of related individuals able to produce fertile offspring, and is identified by a two-part scientific name.

(thre tǝnd): Having an uncertain chance of continued survival; likely to become an endangered species.

(wī(ǝ)ld fī(ǝ)r): An uncontrolled, damaging fire started in a wilderness or rural area.