20 Terms
Contributors in Ecology
Ecology
Attenuation
Biology; Ecology
Reduction in light intensity due to a filtering medium (e.g., particles in water, a forest canopy).
Kettle hole
Biology; Ecology
Depression or pond found in glacial deposits (see Kame Terrace). Left by a chunk of melted glacier.
Potentially renewable resource
Biology; Ecology
One that is either inexhaustible, like solar or wind energy, or replaceable, like wood from trees.
Exfoliation
Biology; Ecology
The weathering off of granite sheets. Called unloading when it happens in conjunction with uplift.
Interaction
Biology; Ecology
The primary ones are competition, mutualism, predation, parasitism, amensalism, and commensialism.
Fermentation
Biology; Ecology
The enzyme-controlled conversion of carbohydrates like grape sugar into hydrocarbons like alcohol.
Horst fault
Biology; Ecology
When two reverse faults push a block of rock upward between them. The opposite of a Graben Fault.
