Biodiversity - Biodiversity is the variety and variability of life on Earth. Biodiversity is typically a measure of variation at the genetic, species, and ecosystem level. 

Fragmentation - The process or state of breaking or being broken into small parts

Whimsical - Playfully quaint or fanciful, especially in an appealing and amusing way 

Keystone Species - A species on which other species in an ecosystem largely depend, such that if it were removed the ecosystem would change drastically 

Nutrient Cycling - The movement and exchange of organic and inorganic matter back into the production of living matter. 

Waste detoxification - The removal of harmful or unwanted components from wastewater 

Grazing - To put (cattle, sheep, etc.) to feed on land covered by grass. 

Ecosystem - A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment 

Overpopulation - The condition of being populated with excessively large-numbers

Fault Line - A line on a rock surface or the ground that traces a geological fault 

Biomes - a large naturally occurring community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat ex. Forest or Tundra 

Climate Stability - The proportion of the Parcels in an ecoregion which are predicted to remain climatically stable 

Ecoregion - A major ecosystem defined by distinctive geography and receiving uniform solar radiation and moisture.  

Soil Preservation - The prevention of loss of the top most of the soil from erosion

Erosion - The action of surface processes such as water flow or wind that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust, and then transport it to another location. 

Biosphere - The regions of the surface, atmosphere, and hydrosphere of the earth occupied by living organisms

Aesthetic Value -  The value that an object, event, or state that the natural environment possesses in virtue of its capacity to elicit positive value or negative value when appreciated or experienced aesthetically.

Instrumental Value  - The value or worth of objects that provide a means to some desirable end, that satisfy some human need and wants

Intrinsic Value - Is the value that an entity has itself, for what it is, or as an end. 

Nutrients: a substance that provides nourishment essential for growth and the maintenance of life

Deserts: A desert is a barren area of landscape where little precipitation occurs and, consequently, living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life

Grasslands: Grasslands are areas where the vegetation is dominated by grasses

Endangered Species Act: provides a program for the conservation of threatened and endangered plants and animals and the habitats in which they are found. The law also prohibits any action that causes a "taking" of any listed species of endangered fish or wildlife

Depletion: eduction in the number or quantity of something

Mineral Exploration: Mineral exploration is the process undertaken by companies, partnerships or corporations in finding ore (commercially viable concentrations of minerals) for mining.

Petroleum Exploration: Hydrocarbon exploration is the search by petroleum geologists and geophysicists for deposits of hydrocarbons, particularly petroleum and natural gas

Nutrient Deficient: A nutritional deficiency occurs when the body doesn't absorb or get from food the necessary amount of a nutrient

Eradicated: destroy completely

Natural Services: Processes that occur naturally in nature that support life and human economies