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An animal or plant (particularly insect- and invertebrate- eating plants) that requires a staple diet consisting mainly or exclusively of animal tissue through predation or scavenging.
Carnivore
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The structural, functional and biological unit of all organisms.
Cell
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The green pigment found in the chloroplasts of higher plants and in cells of photosynthetic mircroorganims (e.g. photosythetic bacteria), which is primarily involved in absorbing light energy for photosynthesis.
Chlorophyll
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The feeling and removal of all trees from a given tract of forest
Clear Cutting
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A type of symbiosis, specifically, a biological relationship in which one species benefits from an interaction, while the host species is neither positively nor negatively affected to any tangible degree.
Commensalism
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An organism that generally obtains food by feeding on other organisms or organic matter due to lack of the ability to manufacture own food from inorganic sources; a heterotroph
Consumer
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A wide, gentle incline from an ocean bottom to a continental slope
Continental Rise
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A submerged border of a continent that slopes gradually and extends to a point of steeper descent to the ocean bottom
Continental Shelf
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The sloping region between a continental shelf and a continental rise
Continental Slope
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Is the transfer of heat by the actual movement of the warmed matter
Convection
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Locations where lithosperic plates are moving towards one another. The plate collisions that occur in these areas can produce earthquakes, volcanic activity and crustal deformation
Convergent Boundary
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A natural stream of water normally smaller than and often tributary to a river
Creek
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Is one of the four main bases found in DNA and RNA
Cytosine
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To produce (an organism) by maating of individuals of different breeds, varieties, or species; hybridize
Cross-Breed
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A body of water moving in a certain direction and caused by wind and density differences in water. The effects of a current are modified by water depth, underwater topography, basin shape, land masses, and deflection from the earth's rotation
Current
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