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| The study of the interactions between living and nonliving things |
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| A group of interbreeding organisms coexisting together |
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| A group of populations living and interacting in the same area |
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| An association of living organisms and their physical environment |
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| A group fo ecosystems classified by climate and plant life |
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| An organism that eats producers |
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| An organism that eats primary consumers |
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| An organism that eats secondary consumers |
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| A diagram that shows the biomass of organisms at each trophic level |
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| A measure of the total dry mass of organisms within a particular region |
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| Evaporation of water from the leaves of plants |
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| An ecosystem where all water runoff drains into a single body of water |
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| The process by which certain gases (principally water vapor, carbon dioxide, and methane) trap heat that would otherwise escape the earth and radiate into space |
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