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| 6643031354 | abiotic reservoir | Where a chemical accumulates or is stockpiled outside of living organisms (the atmosphere is an abiotic reservoir for carbon). | 0 | |
| 6643031355 | biodiversity | The number of species within a specific habitat. | 1 | |
| 6643031356 | biodiversity hot spot | A relatively small area with numerous endemic species and a large number of endangered and threatened species. | 2 | |
| 6643031357 | biogeochemical cycles | Movement of abiotic factors such as water, carbon and nitrogen within an ecosystem. | 3 | |
| 6643031358 | biological magnification | Toxins become more concentrated in successive trophic levels. | 4 | |
| 6643031359 | biomass | The total amount of living tissue within a given trophic level. | 5 | |
| 6643031361 | bioremediation | The use of living organisms to detoxify and restore polluted and degraded ecosystems | 6 | |
| 6643031362 | carnivores | Eat meat | 7 | |
| 6643031363 | chemical cycling | The use and reuse of a chemical element, such as carbon, within an ecosystem | 8 | |
| 6643031364 | community | All the different populations that live together in an area | 9 | |
| 6643031365 | competitive exclusion principle | Ecological rule that states that no two species can occupy the same exact niche in the same habitat at the same time | 10 | |
| 6643031366 | conservation biology | A branch of biology that studies why many species are in trouble and what can be done to save them | 11 | |
| 6643031367 | cryptic coloration | camouflage | 12 | |
| 6643031368 | decomposers | Break down and recycle organic matter | 13 | |
| 6643031369 | detritivores | Eat dead organic matter | 14 | |
| 6643031370 | detritus | Dead organic matter | 15 | |
| 6643031371 | disturbances | Events that change communities, remove or destroy organisms from communities, or alter resource availability | 16 | |
| 6643031372 | ecological niche | The specific role played by an organism or a population of organisms in the ecosystem | 17 | |
| 6643031373 | ecological succession | gradual change in living communities that follows a disturbance | 18 | |
| 6643031374 | ecosystem | A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment. | 19 | |
| 6643031375 | ecosystem services | An essential service an ecosystem provides that supports life and makes economic activity possible. | 20 | |
| 6643031376 | endemic species | species that are native to and found only within a limited area | 21 | |
| 6643031377 | energy flow | The passage of energy through the components of an ecosystem | 22 | |
| 6643031378 | food chain | A series of steps in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten | 23 | |
| 6643031379 | food webs | A complex diagram representing the many energy pathways in an ecosystem | 24 | |
| 6643031380 | herbivores | Eat plants | 25 | |
| 6643031382 | host | An organism on which a parasite lives. | 26 | |
| 6643031383 | interspecific competition | competition between members of different species | 27 | |
| 6643031384 | interspecific interactions | A relationship between individuals of two or more species in a community. | 28 | |
| 6643031385 | keystone species | A species that has an unusually large effect on its ecosystem | 29 | |
| 6643031386 | landscape | Mosaic of connected ecosystems | 30 | |
| 6643031387 | landscape ecology | focuses on the factors controlling exchanges of energy, materials, and organisms across multiple ecosystems | 31 | |
| 6643031388 | movement corridor | a series of small clumps or a narrow strip of quality habitat that connects otherwise isolated patches of quality habitat | 32 | |
| 6643031389 | mutualism | A relationship between two species in which both species benefit | 33 | |
| 6643031390 | nitrogen fixation | The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form | 34 | |
| 6643031391 | omnivores | Eat both plants and animals | 35 | |
| 6643031392 | parasite | An organism that feeds on a living host | 36 | |
| 6643031393 | pathogen | An organism that causes disease | 37 | |
| 6643031394 | predation | An interaction in which one organism captures and feeds on another organism | 38 | |
| 6643031395 | primary consumers | animals that feed on producers- herbivores | 39 | |
| 6643031396 | primary production | Amount of light energy converted to chemical energy by autotrophs. | 40 | |
| 6643031397 | primary succession | Succession that occurs on surfaces where no soil exists. | 41 | |
| 6643031398 | producers | Make their own food | 42 | |
| 6643031399 | pyramid of production | shows the loss of energy at each trophic level | 43 | |
| 6643031400 | quaternary consumers | An organism that eats tertiary consumers | 44 | |
| 6643031401 | relative abundance | The proportion each species represents of all individuals in the community | 45 | |
| 6643031402 | restoration ecology | the study and implementation of restoring damaged ecosystems | 46 | |
| 6643031403 | scavenger | A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms | 47 | |
| 6643031404 | secondary consumers | eat primary consumers | 48 | |
| 6643031405 | secondary succession | The series of changes that occur in an area where the ecosystem has been disturbed, but where soil and organisms still exist | 49 | |
| 6643031406 | species diversity | The variety of species per unit area. This includes both the number of species present (richness) and their relative abundance. | 50 | |
| 6643031407 | species richness | The number of different species in a community | 51 | |
| 6643031408 | sustainable development | A way of using natural resources without depleting them, and of providing for human needs without causing more long term environmental harm | 52 | |
| 6643031409 | tertiary consumers | eat secondary consumers | 53 | |
| 6643031410 | trophic structure | Feeding relationships between organisms in a community. | 54 | |
| 6643031411 | warning coloration | An adaptation of bright coloring on some animals of prey to advertise that they are poisonous | 55 |
