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| 13821492026 | Solar Capital | energy from the sun that warms the planet and supports photosynthesis | 0 | |
| 13821537509 | Gross Domestic Product (GDP) | annual market value of all goods and services produced by all firms and organizations, foreign and domestic, operating within a country | 1 | |
| 13821585677 | Per Capita Ecological Footprint | the average ecological footprint of an individual in a given country or area | 2 | |
| 13821721947 | Biodegradable Pollutants | harmful materials that can be broken down by natural processes | 3 | |
| 13821745732 | Social Capital | result of getting people with different views and values to talk and listen to one another, find common ground based on understanding and trust, and work together to solve environmental and other problems. | 4 | |
| 13821834803 | Nutrient Cycling | the circulation of chemicals necessary for life, from the environment (mostly from soil and water) through organisms and back to the environment. | 5 | |
| 13821846238 | Inductive Reasoning | a type of logic in which generalizations are based on a large number of specific observations. | 6 | |
| 13821902622 | Atomic Number | the number of protons in the nucleus of an atom | 7 | |
| 13821910555 | Law of Conservation of Matter | Matter is not created nor destroyed in any chemical or physical change | 8 | |
| 13821927526 | High Quality Energy | organized & concentrated; can perform useful work (fossil fuel & nuclear) | 9 | |
| 13821936512 | Positive Feedback Loop | causes a system to change further in the same direction | 10 | |
| 13821982619 | Genetic Diversity | the range of genetic material present in a gene pool or population of a species. | 11 | |
| 13821989216 | Biomes | a broad, regional type of ecosystem characterized by distinctive climate and soil conditions and a distinctive kind of biological community adapted to those conditions. | 12 | |
| 13822013243 | Limiting Factors | conditions in the environment that put limits on where an organism can live | 13 | |
| 13822025035 | Ecological Efficiency | the proportion of consumed energy that can be passed from one trophic level to another | 14 | |
| 13822043870 | Transpiration | evaporation of water from the leaves of a plant | 15 | |
| 13822066680 | Field Research | research done in natural, real-life settings outside the laboratory | 16 | |
| 13822071678 | Biodiversity | the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem | 17 | |
| 13822081534 | Differential Reproduction | phenomenon in which individuals with adaptive genetic traits produce more living offspring than do individuals without such traits. | 18 | |
| 13822153179 | Tectonic Plates | sections of the Earth's crust that move due to convection currents | 19 | |
| 13822166118 | Background Extinction | gradual process of a species becoming extinct | 20 | |
| 13822186308 | Species Evenness | relative abundance of each species | 21 | |
| 13822203719 | Ecological Niche | the sum of a species' use of the biotic and abiotic resources in its environment | 22 | |
| 13822208993 | Coevolution | process by which two species evolve in response to changes in each other | 23 | |
| 13822218604 | Resource Partitioning | the division of environmental resources by coexisting species such that the niche of each species differs by one or more significant factors from the niches of all coexisting species | 24 | |
| 13822240791 | K-Selected Species | a species with a low intrinsic growth rate that causes the population to increase slowly until it reaches carrying capacity | 25 | |
| 13822265155 | Secondary Succession | result of getting people with different views and values to talk and listen to one another, find common ground based on understanding and trust, and work together to solve environmental and other problems | 26 | |
| 13822278692 | Cultural Carrying Capacity | the maximum number of people who could live in reasonable freedom and comfort indefinitely, without decreasing the ability of the earth to sustain future generations | 27 |
