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There’s a Hair in My Dirt. Concepts. Photosynthesis . carbohydrate production using light and chlorophyll: a process by which green plants and other organisms turn carbon dioxide and water into carbohydrates and oxygen, using light energy trapped by chlorophyll
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There’s a Hair in My Dirt Concepts
Photosynthesis • carbohydrate production using light and chlorophyll: a process by which green plants and other organisms turn carbon dioxide and water into carbohydrates and oxygen, using light energy trapped by chlorophyll • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1_uez5WX1o&feature=related
Exotic Species • Exotic species • plant or animalspeciesintroduced into an area where they do not occur naturally, non-native species. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYLO1tKbYSk
Competition • 1) A symbiotic relationship between or among living things for resources, such as food, space, shelter, mate, ecological status, etc. • (2) (general) The act of competing; rivalry. • http://www.youtube.com/user/NationalGeographic?v=1vGimYJy-MY&feature=pyv&ad=5611837132&kw=birds
Deforestation • Deforestation • The state of being clear of trees. The removal of trees. The clearance of a forest, commonly occurring in third world countries for crop-rotation purposes • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzK2XITThZM
Adaptations • Adaptation • Definition • noun, plural: adaptations • (ecology) • The adjustment or changes in behavior, physiology, and structure of an organism to become more suited to an environment. • http://videos.howstuffworks.com/hsw/10200-life-in-the-desert-animal-adaptations-video.htm
Matter Cycles • The circulation of living and nonliving things (matter) in nature, going through cycles of chemical reactions in which matter, dissolved in rain, and deposited in the soil, where it is assimilated and metabolized by bacteria and plants, eventually returning to the atmosphere by bacterial decomposition of organic matter. • http://www.uen.org/utahlink/activities/view_activity.cgi?activity_id=11351
Food Webs • A complex of interrelated food chains in an ecological community. Also called food cycle. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbWyrcY5i3s
Decomposition • The act or result of decomposing; disintegration. • Chemistry. Separation into constituents by chemical reaction. • Biology. Breakdown or decay of organic materials. • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0En-_BVbGc