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Biology Class - Exploring Creation with Biology - Wile
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Biology
12th Grade
03/11/2009

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Ecology
Definition
The study of the interactions between living and nonliving things
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Population
Definition
A group of interbreeding organisms coexisting together
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Community
Definition
A group of populations living and interacting in the same area
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Ecosystem
Definition
An association of living organisms and their physical environment
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Biome
Definition
A group of ecosystems classified by climate and plant life
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Primary Consumer
Definition
An organism that eats producers
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Secondary Consumer
Definition
An organism that eats primary consumers
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Tertiary Consumer
Definition
An organism that eats secondary consumers
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Ecological pyramid
Definition
A diagram that shows the biomass of organisms at each trophic level
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Transpiration
Definition
Evaporation of water from the leaves of a plant
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Watershed
Definition
An ecosystem where all water runoff drains into a single body of water
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Greenhouse effect
Definition
The process by which certain gases (principally water vapor, carbon dioxide, and methane) trap heat that would otherwise escape the earth and radiate into space
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