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| 3209443769 | Producers (autotrophs) | capture their own energy and make organic molecules | 0 | |
| 3209451210 | Plants | Type of producers in terrestrial ecosystems | 1 | |
| 3209457431 | Protists and bacteria | type of producers in aquatic ecosystems | 2 | |
| 3209466594 | Gross (primary productivity) | rate in which producers in an ecosystem capture energy | 3 | |
| 3209472293 | Biomass | Amount of organic material in an ecosystem | 4 | |
| 3209477681 | Net (primary productivity) | Rate at which biomass accumulates in an ecosystem | 5 | |
| 3209482506 | Light | Factor that effects net primary productivity (L) | 6 | |
| 3209485474 | Temperature | Factor that effects net primary productivity (T) | 7 | |
| 3209490595 | Precipitation | Factor that effects net primary productivity (P) | 8 | |
| 3209497824 | Consumers (heterotrophs) | Get energy by consuming organic molecules made by other organims | 9 | |
| 3209501615 | Herbivores | `Type of consumer that eat only plants | 10 | |
| 3209504356 | Carnivores | Type of consumer that only eats meat | 11 | |
| 3209508775 | Omnivores | type of consumer that eats meat and plants | 12 | |
| 3209512510 | Detritivores | Type of consumer that eats detris (garbage) | 13 | |
| 3209516138 | Decomposers | Detritivores that break down the food they eat and cause decay | 14 | |
| 3209522494 | Trophic level | level in a food chain or food web | 15 | |
| 3209529659 | 1st trophic level | Producers trophic level | 16 | |
| 3209531170 | 2nd Trophic level | carnivores and omnivores trophic level | 17 | |
| 3209535384 | 3rd Trophic level | detritivores and decomposers Trophic level | 18 | |
| 3209542961 | Food chain | Single path ways of feeding relationships | 19 | |
| 3209547008 | Food web | Interrelated collection of food chain | 20 | |
| 3209551984 | 10 percent rule | about 10 percent of the energy consumed in one trophic level is incorporated into the organism at the next trophic level | 21 | |
| 3209568169 | energy lost in trophic levels | 1. Energy is used to keep organism alive 2. Organism avoids being eaten 3. Parts of organism are not broken down 4. Energy is lost in heat | 22 | |
| 3209583106 | Biological magnification | Increasing concentration of a harmful substance in organisms at higher trophic levels in a food chain or food web | 23 | |
| 3209593546 | Biochemical cycle | movement of important atoms through the biotic and abiotic portion of the environment | 24 | |
| 3209599852 | evapotranspiration | The evaporation of water from soil plus the transpiration of water from plants. | 25 | |
| 3209602848 | important processes in water cycle | 1. evaporation 2. transpiration 3. Precipitation | 26 | |
| 3209608642 | evaporation | Liquid water to gas water vapor | 27 | |
| 3209612523 | transpiration | Evaporation of water from the leaves of a plant | 28 | |
| 3209617860 | carbon dioxide (CO2) | this greenhouse gas acts as a greenhouse on the planet | 29 | |
| 3209733297 | Amino Acids and Nitrogen Bases | nitrogen is important for life to exist because nitrogen is the building block of _______ and ________ | 30 | |
| 3209833611 | 79 | Percent of nitrogen in atmosphere | 31 | |
| 3209835349 | 20 | percent of oxygen in atmosphere | 32 | |
| 3209843066 | Beans (peas, clover, alfalfa) | plants that have mutualistic relationship with bacteria to allow them to get nitrogen | 33 | |
| 3209850686 | Ammonification | Turning atmospheric nitrogen or decomposed detris into ammonia | 34 | |
| 3209871182 | Biomes | Large terrestrial ecosystems determined by their dominant plant life | 35 | |
| 3209881523 | Aquatic biomes | large aquatic ecosystems, determined by location | 36 | |
| 3209890739 | Tropical Rain forest | A LOT of rain, tall trees, high temp, along equator, poor soil, 20% of all species in the world live here, trees being cut down for agriculture | 37 | |
| 3209905245 | Desert | barely any rain, fairly small biomass, a lot of nocturnal life, hot in day cold at night, animals are small, no trees, very poor soil | 38 | |
| 3209919061 | Temperate deciduous forest | mild amount of precipitation, warm summer, cold winter, deciduous trees, have had many trees cut down, fair soil | 39 | |
| 3209932221 | Grassland | Little rain, very inland, very fertile soil, a lot of land is being farmed | 40 | |
| 3209946474 | Chaparral | Cool winter, hot winter, many wildfires, little rain, Mediterranean | 41 | |
| 3209966815 | savannas | tropical or subtropical grasslands, wet season and dry season | 42 | |
| 3209971645 | Temperate rain forest | A lot of rain, lukewarm cool climate, tall trees, damp, poor soil, much rain | 43 | |
| 3209979649 | taiga | Mountainous, very cold winter, some rain, cool summer, conifer trees, dry cold soil, south of tundra, cone bearing plants, evergreens, moose, bears, wolves | 44 | |
| 3210004708 | Tundra | northernmost biome, permafrost, treeless, extremely cold winter, mini lakes form during summer, flat terrain, foxes, lemmings, arctic hair | 45 | |
| 3210031133 | Eutrophic | Rich in organic matter, murky water | 46 | |
| 3210880927 | Oligotrophic | clear, rocky bottom, low in organic matter | 47 | |
| 3210886617 | Nutrients | Slower moving streams and rivers have more________ | 48 | |
| 3210892783 | Intertidal zone | habitat area of the ocean between the high tide and the low tide line on the sea shore | 49 | |
| 3210894651 | Neritic zone | Area of ocean that extends from the low-tide line out to the edge of the continental shelf, most productivity | 50 | |
| 3210898461 | Oceanic zone | low productivity, no light (aphotic), cold water | 51 | |
| 3210902694 | Estuaries | Fresh water from rivers goes into oceans, slat marshes, mud flats, very productive, aquatic version of rainforest | 52 | |
| 3212779161 | Nitrites | NO2 | 53 | |
| 3212779162 | Nitrates | NO3 | 54 |
