(1) Lichen--地衣
a simple slow-growing plant that typically forms a low crusty, leaflike, or branching growth on rocks, walls, and trees.
一種簡單的緩慢生長的植物,通常在岩石,牆壁和樹木上形成低殼,葉狀或分枝生長。
(2)Moss--苔蘚
a small flowerless green plant that lacks true roots, growing in damp habitats and reproducing by means of spores released from stalked capsules.
一種沒有真根的小型無花綠色植物,生長在潮濕的棲息地,並通過從有莖的蒴果中釋放出的孢子進行繁殖。
(3)Rainforest--熱帶雨林
a luxuriant, dense forest rich in biodiversity, found typically in tropical areas with consistently heavy rainfall.
茂密的森林,具有豐富的生物多樣性,通常出現在經常降雨的熱帶地區。
(4)Epiphyte --附生植物
a plant that grows on another plant but is not parasitic, such as the numerous ferns, bromeliads, air plants, and orchids growing on tree trunks in tropical rainforests.
生長在另一種植物上但不寄生的植物,例如熱帶雨林中樹幹上生長的眾多蕨類植物,鳳梨科植物,空氣植物和蘭花。
(5)Liana--藤本植物
a woody climbing plant that hangs from trees, especially in tropical rainforests.
一種懸在樹上的木本攀援植物,尤其是在熱帶雨林中。
(6)Ecosystem--生態係統
a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
相互作用的生物體及其物理環境的生物群落。
(7)Ecological balance--生態平衡
a state of dynamic equilibrium within a community of organisms in which genetic, species and ecosystem diversity remain relatively stable, subject to gradual changes through natural succession.
生物群落內的一種動態平衡狀態,其中遺傳,物種和生態係統多樣性保持相對穩定,並通過自然演替而逐漸發生變化。
生詞學習:
1. crusty:硬皮的
2. lichen:地衣
3. moss:苔蘚
4. Capsule:被膜,蒴
5. spore:孢子
6. stalk:莖
7. rainforest: 熱帶雨林
8. Luxuriant: 繁茂的
9. Biodiversity: 生物多樣性
10. Epiphytes: 附生植物
11. Parasitic: 寄生
12. Fern: 蕨類
13. Bromeliad:鳳梨
14. liana:藤本植物
15. Dynamic equilibrium: 動態平衡
16. succession:演替