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NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
The movement of water in all of its phases (gas, liquid, solid) from the Earth to the atmosphere and back to the Earth.
Industry:Natural environment
Any of various small openings or pores in an animal body, especially an opening resembling a mouth in many invertebrates; also a minute pore in the epidermis of the leaf or stem of a plant; plural is 'stomata'.
Industry:Natural environment
In sexually reproducing organisms, a species is a group of genetically related organisms, usually similar in physical appearance, that actually or potentially interbreed and are reproductively isolated from other groups. In microbiology, a species is a collection of closely related strains of organisms sufficiently different from all other strains to be recognized as a distinct unit.
Industry:Natural environment
A biochemical process by which living organisms take up oxygen from the environment and consume organic matter, releasing both carbon dioxide and heat energy.
Industry:Natural environment
A discipline of zoology that is concerned with sounds of biological origin: their mechanisms of production, physical properties, receptors and reception physiology, and the role of the sounds in behavior.
Industry:Natural environment
The complex colloidal substance which constitutes the living matter of cells and performs the life process functions. The protoplasm found between the cell (plasma) membrane and the nuclear membrane is termed the cytoplasm; the protoplasm within the nucleus and separated from the cytoplasm by the nuclear membrane is termed the nucleoplasm.
Industry:Natural environment
In statistics, the difference between an actual observation and the mean of all observations.
Industry:Natural environment
The chemical interactions among the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere.
Industry:Natural environment
The spinning of a mixture at very high speeds to separate substances of different densities.
Industry:Natural environment
Not normal; contrary to the usual structure, position, behavior or rule.
Industry:Natural environment
