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| Ecosystem | a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
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| Environment | the surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates.
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| Homeostasis | the tendency toward a relatively stable equilibrium between interdependent elements, especially as maintained by physiological processes.
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| abiotic | physical rather than biological; not derived from living organisms.
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| biotic | relating to or resulting from living things, especially in their ecological relations.
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| Biome | a large naturally occurring community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat, e.g., forest or tundra.
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| Niche | a shallow recess, especially one in a wall to display a statue or other ornament.
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| acid deposition | acid deposition, is a broad term that includes any form of precipitation
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| stream order | Stream order is a measure of the relative size of streams.
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| topographic map | In modern mapping, a topographic map is a type of map characterized by large-scale detail and quantitative representation
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| watershed | an area or ridge of land that separates waters flowing to different rivers, basins, or seas.
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| wetlands | land consisting of marshes or swamps; saturated land.
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| hydrology | the branch of science concerned with the properties of the earth's water, especially its movement in relation to land.
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| groundwater | water held underground in the soil or in pores and crevices in rock.
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| mitigation | the action of reducing the severity, seriousness, or painfulness of something.
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| lentic | inhabiting or situated in still, fresh water.
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| lotic | inhabiting or situated in rapidly moving fresh water.
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| consumer | a person or thing that eats or uses something.
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| decomposer | an organism, especially a soil bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate, that decomposes organic material.
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| shredder | a machine or other device for shredding something, especially documents.
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| dichotomous | exhibiting or characterized by dichotomy.
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| pest | a destructive insect or other animal that attacks crops, food, livestock, etc.
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| integrated pest management | s a broad-based approach that integrates practices for economic control of pests
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