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Something living, including all organisms |
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| Nonliving or physical environment, includes physical factors such as soil, sunlight, etc. |
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| A group of organisms of the same species that live together in the same area at the same time. |
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| A community together with it's physical environment. |
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| The gaseous envelope surrounding the Earth. |
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| The Earth's supply of water whether it's liquid, frozen, fresh, or salty. |
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| The soil and rock of Earth's crust. |
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| The capacity or ability to do work. |
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| The study of energy and it's transformations. |
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| A system that doesn't exchange energy with it's surroundings. |
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| A system that can exchange energy with it's surroundings. |
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| First Law of Thermodynamics. |
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| Energy cannot be created or destroyed, although it can be transformed from one form to another. |
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| Second Law of Thermodynamics |
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| Whenever energy is converted from one form to another, some usable energy is lost as heat and disperses into the environment. |
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| The measurable of the disorder or certainty of an outcome. |
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| The biological process in which light energy from the sun is captured and transformed into sugar molecules for plants. |
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| The chemical energy that plants store in carbs. and other molecules is released within plant animal and ither organisms cells. |
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| Obtaining energy and making carbohydrates molecules from inorganic raw materials. |
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| Manufacture complex molecules from inorganic substances, generally CO2 and water; usually uses sunlight to do it. |
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| Use the bodies of other organisms as a source of food energy and bodybuilding materials. |
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| Consumers that eat producers; exclusively herbivores |
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| Organisms that only eat plants |
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| Animals that eat other animals. |
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| Consumers that eat both plants and animals. |
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| Consume detritus, which includes animal carcasses, leaf litter, and feces. |
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| Microbial heterotrophs that break down dead organic material and use the products to supply themselves with energy. |
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| A quantitative estimate of the total mass, or amount of living material. |
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| Illustrates the energy content, often expressed as kilocalories per square meter per year of the biomass. |
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| Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) |
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| The rate as which energy is captured during photosynthesis. |
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| Net Primary Productivity (NPP) |
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| Energy that remains in plant tissues after cellular respiration has occurred. |
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| Energy from food passes from one organism to the next in the sequence. |
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| A complex of interconnected food chains in an ecosystem; a more realistic model of the flow of energy and materials through ecosystems. |
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| Each level in a food chain. |
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| Shows the number of organisms at each trophic level in a given ecosystem, with greater numbers representing larger areas on the pyramid. |
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| Illustrates the total biomass at each successive trophic level. |
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