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Apologia Biology M10
Vocabulary for Module 10 Exploring Creation with Biology
Question | Answer |
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Ecology | The study of the interactions between living and nonliving things (299) |
Population | A group of interbreeding organism coexisting together (299) |
Community | A group of populations living and interacting in the same area (299) |
Ecosystem | An association of living organisms and their physical environment (299) |
Biome | A group of ecosystems classified by climate and plant (299) |
Primary consumer | An organism that eats producers (301) |
Secondary consumer | An organism that eats primary consumers (301) |
Tertiary (ter' she air ee) consumer | An organism that eats secondary consumers (301) |
Ecological pyramid | A diagram that shows the biomass of organisms at each trophic level (304) |
Biomass | A measure of the total dry mass of organisms within a particular region (304) |
Transpiration (tran spuh ray' shun) | Evaporation of water from the leaves of a plant (311) |
Watershed | An ecosystem where all water runoff drains into a body of water (312) |
Greenhouse effect | 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 (317) |