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| solar energy and chemical energy |
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| scientific study among organisms, between organisms, and their environment |
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| individuals that are so similar that they can breed [and produce fertile offspring] |
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| species that live in the same area |
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| populations that live in the same area |
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| organisms that live in a praticular area together with their environment |
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| group of ecosystems that have the same climate and dominant communities |
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| co2 + h2o ----> c6h12o6 + o2 |
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| cycles that connect biological, geological, and chemical processes |
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needed for building proteins
---> nitrogen fixtation and denitrification |
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needed for living tissue
---> photosynthesis included in the carbon cycle |
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DNA and RNA
---> stored in rock |
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| bacteria turns nitrogen gas into ammonia |
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| nitrates back into nitrogen gas |
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| evaporation of water from leaves and plants into the atmosphere |
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| rate at which oragnic matter is produced |
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| aquatic environment recieves a large input of one nutrient |
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| organism that can capture eergy from sunlight or chemicals and use it to produce to food |
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| Biological diversity, the sum total of the variety of organism in the biosphere |
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| Process in which chemical compounds, and other forms of matter are passed from one organism to another and from one part of the biosphere to the other. |
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| total amount of living tissue within a given trophic level |
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| physical or non living factor that shapes an ecosystem |
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| rain containing nitric and sulfuric acids, usually occurs in polluted areas |
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| inherited characteristic that increase an organisms chance of survival |
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| biological influence on organisms within an ecosystem |
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| collection of living matter enclosed by a barrier that separates the cell from its surroundings, basic unit of all forms of life |
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-all living things are composed of cells
-cells are basic unit and structure or life
-new cells are produced in living cells |
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| strong supporting later around the cell membrane in plants, algae, and some bacteria |
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