Search results for "Biotic material" - New World Encyclopedia
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- the chemical composition of the parent material, but mechanical weathering ... can be combined with decaying organic material to constitute soil. The ...18 KB (2,677 words) - 22:02, 11 June 2020
- feeding relationships between species in a biotic community. In other words ... organism is a source of food energy and material for another organism, there ...8 KB (1,247 words) - 10:18, 10 November 2023
- is important for adapting to abiotic and biotic environmental changes. ... However, the sperm does not contribute genetic material. ...11 KB (1,587 words) - 08:54, 18 November 2022
- In biology, detritus is dead organic material, as opposed to living ... Dead plants and animals, material derived from body tissues such as ...17 KB (2,559 words) - 08:55, 15 January 2023
- portion of the sediments can be traced to material carried by present-day rivers ... the abyssal plains of the oceans are biotic deserts. The pelagic (water ...10 KB (1,465 words) - 02:48, 8 January 2024
- the remarkable harmony seen between biotic and abiotic elements on Earth; ... support in the 1980s, when the genetic material of mitochondria and chloroplasts ...19 KB (2,756 words) - 10:41, 9 March 2023
- Incense is a material composed of aromatic organic materials that ... Incense is a material composed of aromatic organic materials that ...32 KB (4,937 words) - 12:45, 4 March 2024
- harmonious coordination between different biotic and abiotic elements on Earth. ... back into the atmosphere. However, more material is photosynthesized than ...17 KB (2,593 words) - 23:46, 20 April 2023
- Biotic pollination (by organisms) * Entomophily: pollination by insects ... About 80 percent of all plant pollination is biotic. Of the 20 percent ...25 KB (3,659 words) - 00:17, 12 April 2023
- no movement, that is, no physical removal of material. Erosion is a natural process, moving material and nutrients from one ...24 KB (3,723 words) - 21:23, 20 March 2024
- other microorganisms that recycle organic material for reuse by plants. ... The majority of material in most soil is mineral. This consists of ...27 KB (4,112 words) - 15:59, 14 October 2022
- even millennia of interaction with their biotic (living) environment. ... Why might plants have come to function as the material basis for human ...15 KB (2,113 words) - 04:35, 22 March 2024
- the modernity would result in perpetual material prosperity and the spiritual ... the argument from intrinsic worth of a-biotic or "non-sentient" ...18 KB (2,652 words) - 19:01, 13 February 2024
- Nature, broadly defined, refers to the physical (natural, material ... the natural world, physical universe, or material world surrounding human ...63 KB (9,360 words) - 04:22, 11 March 2023
- of the highest provinces in land, water, biotic, mineral and energy resources ... China: selections of Eastern Zhou Dynasty material form the Hubei Provincial ...22 KB (3,092 words) - 21:04, 7 February 2024
- The material at the bottom of a lake, or lake bed, may be composed of a wide variety of inorganics, such as silt or sand, and organic material ...31 KB (4,835 words) - 05:36, 4 March 2023
- that have a combination of genetic material contributed by two different ... in fungi, a mixing of genetic material occurs so that the offspring ...31 KB (4,574 words) - 06:48, 5 October 2022
- and other nutrients required to sustain biotic activity. These waters circulate ... (SO42−) in the oxidation of organic material, which leads to the creation ...25 KB (3,749 words) - 18:07, 31 October 2023
- reactors and provides the explosive material for nuclear weapons. Both ... 'Little Boy') whose fissile material was highly enriched uranium ...48 KB (6,867 words) - 15:33, 16 January 2024
- While the bulk of material in any star is hydrogen and helium, there ... supply the surface with life-sustaining material and the atmosphere with ...54 KB (8,172 words) - 20:44, 9 April 2023