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| The permanent removal of trees to make room for something besides forests. |
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| study of prehistoric life |
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| a person who does not eat or use animal products. |
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| the practice of breeding animals for the production of animal products and for recreational purposes |
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| the long-term rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system. |
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| an overflowing of a large amount of water beyond its normal confines, especially over what is normally dry land. |
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| a rapidly rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. |
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| a rapidly rotating storm system characterized by a low-pressure center, a closed low-level atmospheric circulation, strong winds, and a spiral arrangement of thunderstorms that produce heavy rain or squalls |
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| a sudden and violent shaking of the ground, sometimes causing great destruction, as a result of movements within the earth's crust or volcanic action. |
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| a series of waves in a water body caused by the displacement of a large volume of water, generally in an ocean or a large lake. |
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| ground, including rock or soil, with a temperature that remains at or below the freezing point of water 0 °C for two or more years. |
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| a quantity representing the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere or in a gas. |
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| a continuous, directed movement of seawater generated by a number of forces acting upon the water, including wind, the Coriolis effect, breaking waves, cabbeling, and temperature and salinity differences. |
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| study of ancient climates |
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| all the organisms of the same group or species, which live in a particular geographical area, and have the capability of interbreeding. |
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| the envelope of gases surrounding the earth or another planet. |
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| the action of surface processes that removes soil, rock, or dissolved material from one location on the Earth's crust, and then transports it to another location. |
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| the series of processes by which carbon compounds are interconverted in the environment, involving the incorporation of carbon dioxide into living tissue by photosynthesis and its return to the atmosphere through respiration, the decay of dead organisms, and the burning of fossil fuels. |
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| relating to or derived from living matter. |
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| not consisting of or deriving from living matter. |
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The Goldilocks Effect
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| refers to an infant's preference to attend to events that are neither too simple nor too complex according to their current representation of the world. |
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| the range of distances from a star where liquid water might pool on the surface of an orbiting planet. |
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| the study of the evolutionary history and relationships among individuals or groups of organisms. |
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| the natural process by which life has arisen from non-living matter, such as simple organic compounds. |
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the theory that life on the earth originated from microorganisms or chemical precursors of life present in outer space and able to initiate life on reaching a suitable environment.
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| a member of a large group of unicellular microorganisms which have cell walls but lack organelles and an organized nucleus, including some which can cause disease. |
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| These microorganisms lack cell nuclei and are therefore prokaryotes. |
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| These are organisms with cells that contain a nucleus as well as membrane-bound organelles. |
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a microorganism, especially an archaean, that lives in conditions of extreme temperature, acidity, alkalinity, or chemical concentration.
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a bacterium or other microorganism that grows best at higher than normal temperatures.
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Chemosynthesizers
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| Any organism that creates organic matter with energy derived from chemical reactions. |
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| organisms are those that thrive under highly acidic conditions (usually at pH 2.0 or below). |
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an organism, especially a microorganism, that grows in or can tolerate saline conditions.
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a methane-producing bacterium, especially an archaean which reduces carbon dioxide to methane.
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| Europa is the smallest of the four Galilean moons orbiting Jupiter, and the sixth-closest to the planet of all the 79 known moons of Jupiter. |
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| a microorganism, especially a bacterium causing disease or fermentation. |
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| a type of hydrothermal vent typically found on the sea floor. These vents are often referred to as underwater geysers. |
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| a fissure on the seafloor from which geothermally heated water issues. |
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| deoxyribonucleic acid, a self-replicating material which is present in nearly all living organisms as the main constituent of chromosomes. It is the carrier of genetic information. |
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| a person, typically one more remote than a grandparent, from whom one is descended. |
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