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| 2132785605 | Environment | Surroundings | 0 | |
| 2132786423 | Ecology | Field of study in biology that comes from the Greek work 'oikos' | 1 | |
| 2132789676 | Ecosystem | All of the biotic and abiotic things in a specific area and their interactions. | 2 | |
| 2132796496 | Biotic | Living | 3 | |
| 2132797493 | Abiotic | Never living or non-living | 4 | |
| 2132798938 | Biosphere | The area of the Earth that contains life | 5 | |
| 2132800976 | Biome | Very large ecological areas on the earth's surface, with fauna and flora (animals and plants) adapting to their environment. | 6 | |
| 2132809188 | Habitat | The organism's home containing food, water and shelter | 7 | |
| 2132811402 | Niche | An organism's job in an ecosystem. No two organisms have exactly the same job. | 8 | |
| 2132813705 | Food Web | A series of food chains showing the interactions of organisms of different trophic levels. | 9 | |
| 2132819146 | Food Chain | A linear example of how energy and matter move through different trophic levels of an ecosystem. | 10 | |
| 2132824352 | Heterotroph | An organism that needs to consume food - consumers. | 11 | |
| 2132826240 | Autotroph | An organism that makes it's own food - producers. | 12 | |
| 2132830212 | Trophic Level | The feeding level of an organism | 13 | |
| 2132830860 | Energy pyramid | A model to show the relationships between producers and consumers as energy moves through an ecosystem. | 14 | |
| 2132836372 | Herbivore | Plant eater - consumer | 15 | |
| 2132837226 | Carnivore | Meat eater - consumer | 16 | |
| 2132837903 | Omnivore | Eats both plants and animals - consumer | 17 | |
| 2132841910 | Scavenger | Feed on recently deceased organisms | 18 | |
| 2132845891 | Decomposer | Feed on dead organisms by breaking them down into nutrients - consumer (Bacteria and Fungi) | 19 | |
| 2132848386 | Consumer | Feeds on other organisms - heterotroph | 20 | |
| 2132851425 | Producer | Makes own food through photosynthesis or chemosynthesis - autotroph | 21 | |
| 2132854173 | Specialist | Has specific requirements for food and habitat. | 22 | |
| 2132857150 | Generalist | Not choosy about what it eats or where it lives. | 23 | |
| 2132859173 | Photosynthesis | Process by which producers make food (sugars) from carbon dioxide and water | 24 | |
| 2132867567 | Chemosynthesis | Process by which producers make food (sugars) from chemicals | 25 | |
| 2132875033 | Snag | A standing dead tree | 26 | |
| 2132875978 | Nurse log | A fallen tree that is decomposing and providing the nutrients for seedlings. | 27 | |
| 2132879577 | Chicxulub | A crater in the Yucatan Penninsula from 65 million years ago | 28 | |
| 2132886270 | Foraminifera | One-celled sea creatures that float in the ocean or live in sediments. | 29 | |
| 2132894670 | Global Warming | A warming of the earth's atmosphere and oceans that is predicted to result from an increase in the greenhouse effect caused by air pollution | 30 | |
| 2132902597 | Fossil Fuel | A fuel (as coal, oil, or natural gas) that is formed in the earth from plant or animal remains | 31 | |
| 2132904840 | Greenhouse gases | A gas that contributes to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation, e.g., carbon dioxide and chlorofluorocarbons. | 32 | |
| 2132914768 | EPA | The Environmental Protection Agency which was created in 1970 for the purpose of protecting human health and the environment by writing and enforcing regulations based on laws passed by Congress. | 33 | |
| 2132919809 | Introduced species | An introduced, alien, exotic, non-indigenous, or non-native species, or simply an introduction, is a species living outside its native distributional range, which has arrived there by human activity, either deliberate or accidental. | 34 | |
| 2132924235 | Invasive species | An invasive species is a plant or animal that is not native to a specific location (an Introduced species); and has a tendency to spread, which is believed to cause damage to the environment, human economy and/or human health. | 35 | |
| 2132927612 | Restoration | Returning something to its former condition. | 36 | |
| 2132934426 | Controlled burning | A process used by fire ecologists to restore ecosystems. | 37 | |
| 2132938395 | Pollution | The presence in or introduction into the environment of a substance or thing that has harmful or poisonous effects. | 38 | |
| 2132939360 | Pollutant | A substance that contaminates the air, ground, or water. | 39 | |
| 2132942536 | Smog | A pollutant made up largely of ozone found at ground level. The term is a combination of the words 'fog' and 'smoke'. | 40 | |
| 2132949652 | Acid deposition | Precipitation that is contaminants such as sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide gases. An example would be acid rain. | 41 | |
| 2132954379 | Pesticide | Is any substance used to kill, repel, or control certain forms of plant or animal life that are considered to be pests. | 42 | |
| 2132955389 | Herbicide | Is any substance used to kill, repel, or control certain forms of plant life that are considered to be pests. | 43 | |
| 2132955390 | Fungicide | Is any substance used to kill, repel, or control certain forms of fungal life that are considered to be pests. | 44 | |
| 2132958103 | Insecticide | Is any substance used to kill, repel, or control certain forms of insect life that are considered to be pests. | 45 | |
| 2132962979 | Watershed | The area of land where all of the water that is under it or drains off of it goes into the same place | 46 | |
| 2132963915 | Population | All the organisms of the same group or species, which live in the same geographical area, and have the capability of interbreeding. | 47 | |
| 2132963916 | Carrying capacity | The maximum size of a species population that the environment will support. | 48 | |
| 2132965157 | Limiting factor | An environmental factor that tends to limit population size. | 49 |
