Ecology

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Nitrogen fixation

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Processes of converting nitrogen gas into ammonia

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Biosphere

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Part of erath in which life exists including land water and air or atmosphere

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Transpiration

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Loss of water from a plant through it's leaves.

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Ecology

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Scientific study of intreactions omong organisms and between organisms and there environment.

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Limiting nutrient

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Single nutrient that eather is scarce or cycles very slowly, limiting the growth of organisms in a ecosystem.

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Species

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Group of similar organisms that can breed and produce fertle offspring.

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Biome

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Group of ecosystems that have the same climate and simular dominant communities

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Ecosystem

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Collection of all of the organisms that live in a particular place, together with there nonliving environment.

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evaporation

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processes in which water changes from a liquad into an atmospheric gas

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Population

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Group of individuals of the same species that live in the same aera.

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Primary Productivity

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Rate at which organic matter is created by producers in an ecosystem

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community

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Assemblage of different populations that live together in a defined area.

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Nutrient

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Chemical substance that an organism requires to live

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Algal bloom

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An immediate increase in the amount of algae and other producers that results from a large imput of a limiting nutrient.

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Denitrification

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Converson of nitrates into nitrogen gas.

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Biogeochemical cycle

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Processes in which elements,chemical compounds, and other forms of matter are passed from one organism to another and from one part of the biosphere to another.