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| 4380464000 | Ecology | The science that studies the relations between organisms and their environment and among various ecosystems | 0 | |
| 4380477203 | Habitat | A physical location to which an organism is biologically suited. Most species have specific habitat parameters and limits | 1 | |
| 4380490653 | photosynthesis | The process by which plants produce their own food from carbon dioxide and water, powered by solar energy | 2 | |
| 4380504477 | Chlorophyll | a light-sensitive pigment that resides within chloroplasts in leaf cells of plants; the bases of photosynthesis | 3 | |
| 4380515651 | Respiration | The process by which plants oxidize carbohydrates to derive energy from their operations; essentially, the reverse of the photosynthetic process; release carbon dioxide, water and heat energy into the environment | 4 | |
| 4380544695 | Biomass | The total mass of living organisms on Earth or per unit of a landscape | 5 | |
| 4380548805 | Net Primary Production | The net photosynthesis minus respiration for a given community | 6 | |
| 4380557643 | Life Zones | A zonation by altitude of plants and animals that form distinctive communities | 7 | |
| 4380570397 | Limiting Factors | The physical or chemical factor that most inhibits biotic processes through either lack or excess | 8 | |
| 4380578266 | Producers | Organism (plant) in an ecosystem that uses carbon dioxide as it sole source of carbon, which it chemically fixes through photosynthesis to provide its own nourishment; also called an autotroph | 9 | |
| 4380588709 | Consumers | Organism in an ecosystem that depends on producers | 10 | |
| 4380597565 | Food Chain | The circuit along which energy flows from producers, which manufactures their own food, to consumers |  | 11 |
| 4380614686 | Herbivore | The primary consumer in a food web, which eats plant material formed by a producer that has photosynthesized organic molecules | 12 | |
| 4380624035 | Carnivore | A secondary consumer that principally eats meat for sustenance | 13 | |
| 4380636708 | Understory | a layer of vegetation beneath the main canopy of a forest. |  | 14 |
| 4380638812 | Overstory | The highest layer of vegetation in a forest, usually forming the canopy. |  | 15 |
| 4380638813 | Ground Cover | low-growing, spreading plants that help to stop weeds from growing. |  | 16 |
| 4380645296 | Shade Tolerance | refers to a plant's ability to tolerate low light levels. The term is also used in horticulture and landscaping, although in this context its use is sometimes sloppy, especially with respect to labeling of plants for sale in nurseries. | 17 | |
| 4380650474 | Tundra | a type of biome where the tree growth is hindered by low temperatures and short growing seasons. The term tundra comes through Russian тундра (tûndra) from the Kildin Sami word tūndâr "uplands", "treeless mountain tract" |  | 18 |
| 4380659567 | Boreal Forest | is a biome characterized by coniferous forests consisting mostly of pines, spruces and larches. The taiga is the world's largest terrestrial biome. |  | 19 |
| 4380664256 | Deciduous Forest | dominated by trees that lose their leaves each year. They are found in areas with warm, moist summers and mild winters. The three major areas of this forest type occur in the Northern Hemisphere: eastern North America, East Asia, and Europe. |  | 20 |
| 4380670650 | Coniferous Forest | a terrestrial biome found in temperate regions of the world with warm summers and cool winters and adequate rainfall to sustain a forest. |  | 21 |
| 4380702190 | Rain Forest | a luxuriant, dense forest rich in biodiversity, found typically in tropical areas with consistently heavy rainfall. |  | 22 |
| 4380710012 | Symbiotic | any diverse organisms that live together, but in this case, the relationship is not necessarily beneficial to both. Parasites, for example, have a symbiotic relationship with their hosts, but only the parasite benefits. | 23 | |
| 4380713572 | Ecotone | a transition area between two biomes. It is where two communities meet and integrate. It may be narrow or wide, and it may be local (the zone between a field and forest) or regional (the transition between forest and grassland ecosystems). | 24 | |
| 4380721313 | Pioneer Community | The variety of plants, animals and fungi that first colonize a barren habitat | 25 | |
| 4380729847 | Desertification | A type of land degradation in which a relatively dry land region becomes increasingly arid, typically losing its bodies of water as well as vegetation and wildlife. It is caused by a variety of factors, such as climate change and human activities. |  | 26 |
| 4380734556 | Chaparral | vegetation consisting chiefly of tangled shrubs and thorny bushes. |  | 27 |
| 4380738751 | Fire Ecology | a branch of ecology that focuses on the origins of wildland fire and it's relationship to the environment that surrounds it, both living and non-living. A wildland fire is defined as any fire that is burning in a natural environment. | 28 | |
| 4380740962 | Stomata | minute aperture structures on plants found typically on the outer leaf skin layer, also known as the epidermis. They consist of two specialized cells, called guard cells that surround a tiny pore called a stoma | 29 | |
| 4380754163 | Slash and Burn | a method of agriculture in which existing vegetation is cut down and burned off before new seeds are sown, typically used as a method for clearing forest land for farming. | 30 | |
| 4380748946 | Tropical Savanna | a rolling grassland scattered with shrubs and isolated trees, which can be found between a tropical rainforest and desert biome. Not enough rain falls on a savanna to support forests. Savannas are also known as tropical grasslands. | 31 | |
| 4380775324 | Biodiversity | The variety of life. It can be studied on many levels. At the highest level, you can look at all the different species on the entire Earth. On a much smaller scale, you can study biodiversity within a pond ecosystem or a neighborhood park. | 32 | |
| 4380781878 | Monoculture | the cultivation of a single crop in a given area. | 33 |
