Biology Module 10
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- Greenhouse effect
- The process by which certain gases (principally water, carbon dioxide, and methane) trap heat that would otherwise escape the earth and radiate into space (318)
- Ecosystem
- An association of living organisms and their physical environment (309)
- Biomass
- A measure of the mass of organisms within a region divided by the area of that region (314)
- Ecological pyramid
- A diagram that shows the biomass of organisms at each trophic level (314)
- Tertiary (ter' she air ee) consumer
- An organism that eats secondary consumers (312)
- Ecology
- The study of relationships among organisms in ecosystems (310)
- Watershed
- An ecosystem where all water runoff drains into a single river or stream (323)
- Transpiration (tran spuh ray' shun)
- Evaporation of water from the leaves of a plant (323)
- Secondary consumer
- An organism that eats primary consumers (312)
- Primary consumer
- An organism that eats producers (311)