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| Fraction of the total incident solar radiation reflected by a planet back to space, or planet's energy balance. |
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| Principle stating that energy cannot be created or destroyed, but can be altered from one form to another. |
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| A community or group of living organisms that live in and interact with each other in a specific environment |
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| Relatively stable state in which the ecosystem is consisted to be balanced and healthy. |
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| The state of a body or physical system that is at rest or in constant and unchanging motion |
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| Strength and vitality capacity required to sustain physical or mental activity or do work. |
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| A measure of the disorder that exists in a defined system that affects inefficiency and decrease in available energy. |
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| Excessive plant and algal growth due to the increased availability of one or more limiting growth factors. |
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| Tranfer of energy within an environment among biotic and abiotic organisms. Represented by arrows. |
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| The ability of ecological systems to self regulate to maintain stable system properties despite perturbations. |
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| An organism that helps define an entire ecosystem. It's absence dramatically alters or declines the environment. |
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| A gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth's atmosphere. |
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| Group of physical quantities, such as temperature, energy, and entropy, branching into (3) subsets also known as the conservation of energy. |
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| Something that reduces the effect of change and helps maintain balance within an environment. |
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| Temporary quick change in environmental conditions that causes a pronounced great change in an ecosystem. |
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Something that increases the effect of change causing instability,
unbalance, or new conditions within an environment. |
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| Precautionary principle |
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| Guideline that enables decision-makers to adopt measures when scientific evidence about an environmental or human health hazard is uncertain and the stakes are high. |
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| Ecosystem's stability and capability of tolerating disturbance and restoring itself. |
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| Record account of dramatic effect on the long-term usefulness involving environmental factors involving temperature, relative humidity, pollutant, and light. Represented with a box. |
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| The capacity to endure in a relatively ongoing way across various domains of life. |
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| Relationships between heat and other forms of energy and how it affects matter. |
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Threshold beyond the established condition when exceeded, leads to large and often irreversible changes in the state of a ecosystem.
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| Passing of energy from one object to another. |
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| Physical, chemical and biological changes which result from the interaction of organisms and environmental substances. |
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