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| 6091169076 | Adaptation | A characteristic that improves an individual's ability to survive and reproduce in a particular environment. | 0 | |
| 6091169077 | Aerobic | Process that requires oxygen | 1 | |
| 6091169078 | Anaerobic | Process that does not require oxygen | 2 | |
| 6091169079 | Autotroph | An organism that can make its own food | 3 | |
| 6091169080 | Biodiversity | The number of different species in an area | 4 | |
| 6091169081 | Biomass | The total amount of living tissue within a given trophic level | 5 | |
| 6091169082 | Biome | A group of ecosystems with similar climates and organisms | 6 | |
| 6091169083 | Biosphere | Consists of all life on Earth and all parts of the Earth in which life exists, including land, water, and the atmosphere. | 7 | |
| 6091169084 | Carrying capacity | The largest number of individuals of a species that the environment of a particular area can support indefinitely. | 8 | |
| 6091169085 | Cellular respiration | The process by which cells use oxygen to produce energy from food | 9 | |
| 6091169086 | Chromosome | An organized structure of DNA, protein, and RNA found in cells that carries the genetic information of an organism | 10 | |
| 6091169087 | Climate | The average, seasonal weather conditions in an area over a long period of time | 11 | |
| 6091169088 | Community | A group of various species of living things that live in the same habitat and interact with each other | 12 | |
| 6091169089 | Conservation | The process of saving or protecting a natural resource | 13 | |
| 6091169090 | Consumer | An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms | 14 | |
| 6091169091 | Decomposer | An organism that gets energy by breaking down the remains of dead organisms or animal wastes and consuming or absorbing the nutrients. | 15 | |
| 6091169092 | Ecosystem | A system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment (biotic & abiotic) | 16 | |
| 6091169093 | Food web | A complex arrangement of interrelated food chains illustrating the flow of energy. | 17 | |
| 6091169094 | Fossil fuel | Coal, oil, natural gas, and other fuels that are ancient remains of plants and animals. | 18 | |
| 6091169095 | Gene | A segment of DNA on a chromosome that codes for a specific trait | 19 | |
| 6091169096 | Gene pool | All of the alleles in all the individuals that make up a population | 20 | |
| 6091169097 | Habitat | A place where an organism lives | 21 | |
| 6091169098 | Heterotroph | An organism that cannot make its own food. | 22 | |
| 6091169099 | Kinetic energy | Energy that an object has due to its motion | 23 | |
| 6091169100 | Latitude | Distance north or south of the Equator, measured in degrees. | 24 | |
| 6091169101 | Law of Conservation of Matter | Principle that mass cannot be created or destroyed in ordinary chemical and physical changes. | 25 | |
| 6091169102 | Mutation | A change in the nucleotide-base sequence of a DNA molecule | 26 | |
| 6091169103 | Natural selection | A process in which individuals that have certain inherited traits tend to survive and reproduce at higher rates than other individuals because of those traits. | 27 | |
| 6091169104 | Niche | An organism's particular role in an ecosystem. | 28 | |
| 6091169105 | Organism | An individual living thing | 29 | |
| 6091169106 | Photosynthesis | A process used by plants and other autotrophs to capture light and energy and use it to power chemical reactions that convert carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and energy-rich carbohydrates, such as sugars and starches. | 30 | |
| 6091169107 | Plate tectonics | The theory that the earth is broken into plates and are in motion. | 31 | |
| 6091169108 | Pollution | Release of harmful materials into the environment | 32 | |
| 6091169109 | Population | A group of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area | 33 | |
| 6091169110 | Potential energy | Energy stored due to an object's position or arrangement | 34 | |
| 6091169111 | Producer | An organism that can make its own food by using energy from its surroundings | 35 | |
| 6091169112 | Toxic | causing harm; poisonous | 36 | |
| 6091169113 | Trait | A genetically determined characteristic | 37 | |
| 6091169114 | Trophic level | A position in a food chain occupied by a group of organisms with a similar feeding mode. | 38 | |
| 6091169115 | Weather | The condition of Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place. | 39 |
