Ecology

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Adaptation

Biology; Ecology

How living things change what they do or what they are to survive in a particular environment. In this the organism is not a passive recipient of external circumstances; the relationship is ...

Keystone species

Biology; Ecology

A species that increases or decreases the diversity of a system. Example: otters, which when hunted to extinction remove a cheque on the sea urchins that will eat local kelp forests on which many ...

A hazard because wells left on vacated lands can channel water contaminated by pesticides and fertiliser straight down into the water table. Some states in the U. S. Offer incentives for sealing off ...

Quartz

Biology; Ecology

A hexagonally latticed silicon dioxide mineral. A chief component of sand and therefore sandstone. It is the second most abundant mineral after feldspar and is common in continental crust but rarer ...

Legume

Biology; Ecology

A flowering bean or pea plant. All legumes contribute to the nitrogen, phosphorus (key to flowering and seed formation), and potassium nutrition of the crops that follow. Alfalfa is the heaviest ...

Magnetosphere

Biology; Ecology

The Earth's magnetic field, generated by the planet's nickel-iron core and extending thousands of kilometres into space. It shields the Earth from the highly charged plasma (mostly hydrogen ...

Gross domestic product (GDP)

Biology; Ecology

Gross domestic product is a measure of the total production and consumption of goods and services in the United States. Because it does not take resource depletion or pollution into account, the GDP ...