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| 5037521091 | Aerobic Respiration | cells convert glucose and oxygen into energy, CO2 and H2O (opposite of photosynthesis) | 0 | |
| 5037535098 | Cellular Respiration | Cells unlock energy of chemical compounds | 1 | |
| 5037547012 | Photosynthesis | producers use sun to make CO2 and H2O into O2 | 2 | |
| 5037557051 | Producer (autotroph) | uses energy from sun to make usable energy | 3 | |
| 5037567045 | Biosphere | combination of all ecosystems on earth | 4 | |
| 5037580780 | Consumer (heterotroph) | cannot do photosynthesis and gets nutrients from other organisms | 5 | |
| 5037591954 | Herbivore (primary consumer) | consumer that eats producers | 6 | |
| 5037605289 | Carnivore | consumer that eats other consumers | 7 | |
| 5037609076 | Secondary Consumer | a carnivore that eats primary consumers | 8 | |
| 5037615311 | Tertiary Consumer | a carnivore that eats secondary consumers | 9 | |
| 5037620693 | Trophic Levels | successive levels of organisms consuming one another | 10 | |
| 5037627046 | Food Chain | sequence of consumption from producers through tertiary consumers | 11 | |
| 5037635597 | Food Web | model of how energy and matter move through trophic levels | 12 | |
| 5037643537 | Scavenger | An organism that consumes dead animals | 13 | |
| 5037649921 | Detritivore | organism that can break down dead tissues and waste products into smaller particles | 14 | |
| 5037657934 | Decomposers | fungi and bacteria that convert organic matter into small elements and molecules that can be recycled back into the ecosystem | 15 | |
| 5037668941 | Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) | total amount of sun energy grasped by producers via photosynthesis over a given amount of time | 16 | |
| 5037685549 | Net Primary Productivity (NPP) | energy captured by producers in an ecosystem minus the energy producers respire | 17 | |
| 5037696041 | Biomass | mass of all living matter in a specific area | 18 | |
| 5037698978 | Standing Crop | amount of biomass in an ecosystem at a specific time | 19 | |
| 5037710565 | Ecological Efficiency | proportion of consumed energy that can be passed from one trophic level to another | 20 | |
| 5037724956 | Trophic Pyramid | representation of the distribution of biomass, numbers, or energy among trophic levels | 21 | |
| 5037736209 | Biogeochemical Cycle | movements of matter within and between ecosystems | 22 | |
| 5037743968 | Hydrologic Cycle | movement of water through the biosphere | 23 | |
| 5037750012 | Transpiration | release of water from leaves during photosynthesis | 24 | |
| 5037759083 | Evapotranspiration | combined amount of evaporation and transpiration | 25 | |
| 5037769965 | Runoff | water that moves across the land surface and into streams and rivers | 26 | |
| 5037784113 | Carbon Cycle | movement of carbon around the biosphere | 27 | |
| 5037793861 | Macronutrient | one of the six key elements that organisms need in relatively large amounts; nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, calcium, magnesium, and sulfur | 28 | |
| 5037811311 | Limiting Nutrient | nutrient required for growth but present in smaller quantities than others | 29 | |
| 5037824904 | Nitrogen Cycle | movement of nitrogen around biosphere | 30 | |
| 5037830171 | Nitrogen Fixation | some organisms can convert nitrogen gas into ammonia directly | 31 | |
| 5037840128 | Nitrification | conversion of ammonia into nitrite into nitrate | 32 | |
| 5037850141 | Assimilation | producers incorporate elements into their tissues | 33 | |
| 5037861021 | Mineralization | decomposers breakdown organic matter from dead bodies and waste products and convert into inorganic compounds | 34 | |
| 5037873871 | Ammonification | decomposers breakdown organic nitrogen in dead bodies and waste and convert into inorganic compounds | 35 | |
| 5037888653 | Detrification | conversion of nitrate in a series of steps into gases nitrous oxide and eventually N2 which is emitted into atmosphere | 36 | |
| 5037900031 | Leaching | transportation of dissolved molecules through the soil via groundwater | 37 | |
| 5037909357 | Phosphorus Cycle | movement of phosphorus around biosphere | 38 | |
| 5037916338 | Algal Bloom | rapid increase in algal population of a waterway | 39 | |
| 5037938478 | Hypoxic | low in oxygen | 40 | |
| 5037947985 | Sulfur Cycle | movement of sulfur around the biosphere | 41 | |
| 5037958320 | Disturbance | an event resulting in the change population size or community composition | 42 | |
| 5037965044 | Watershed | all land in a given landscape that drains into a particular stream, river, lake, or wetland | 43 | |
| 5037977061 | Resistance | measure of how much a disturbance can affect flows of energy and matter in an ecosystem | 44 | |
| 5037986046 | Resilience | rate at which an ecosystem returns to its original state after disturbance | 45 | |
| 5037994830 | Restoration Ecology | study and implementation of restoring damaged ecosystems | 46 | |
| 5038003961 | Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis | ecosystems experiencing intermediate levels of disterbance are more diverse than those with high or low disturbance levels | 47 |
