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Biology

A natural science concerned with the study of life or living matter in all its forms and phenomena, especially in relation to their origin, growth, reproduction, structure, behaviour and evolution.

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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.

organic

Biology; Ecology

Containing carbon; also, made of living things or the products of their decomposition, like humus.

plucking

Biology; Ecology

Glacial erosion in which frozen wedges of ice are pulled out of rocky cracks by a passing glacier.

drumlin

Biology; Ecology

An elongated hill of glacial till or drift whose narrow end points toward the retreating glacier.

escarpment

Biology; Ecology

A cliff-like ridge formed by faulting or erosion. It divides two more or less even pieces of land.