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Yamal Peninsula
How an ecosystem works: Producers, herbivores, and carnivores
How an ecosystem works
marine food chain terrestrial food chain food web energy pyramid measuring biodiversity ecosystem energy transfer scale in ecological studies
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Chutes d'Ekom - a waterfall on the Nkam river in the rainforest near Melong, in the western highlands of Cameroon in Africa.
Ecosystems
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Rusty patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis) photographed in the Midwest in 2017. endangered species insect pollination
What Would Happen If All the Bees Died?
Path through summer forest in the Ukraine. (trees, lush, green, walk, walkway, road, Ukrainia, Ukrainian, woods)
What Is the Difference Between Primary and Secondary Ecological Succession?
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pulmonary veins and arteries, circulation, cardiovascular system, human anatomy, (Netter replacement project - SSC)
13 Questions About How the Human Body Works Answered
African Americans demonstrating for voting rights in front of the White House as police and others watch, March 12, 1965. One sign reads, "We demand the right to vote everywhere." Voting Rights Act, civil rights.
Timeline of the American Civil Rights Movement
illustration of the walking titanosaurus, Patagotitan mayorum
Titanosaurs: 8 of the World's Biggest Dinosaurs
Salem Witch Trials. Photogravure after the painting by Walter McEwen titled - The Witches - circa 1890s.
How Rye Bread May Have Caused the Salem Witch Trials
Close up of praying mantis walking on stone ground against a blurred background in Japan
6 Animals That Eat Their Mates
airplane in flight (plane, aircraft, flying)
7 Puzzling Plane Disappearances
The impeachment trial of Pres. Andrew Johnson, illustration from Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, March 28, 1868.
What If the President Is Impeached?

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Yamal Peninsula
marine food chain
terrestrial food chain
food web
energy pyramid
measuring biodiversity
ecosystem energy transfer
scale in ecological studies
How an ecosystem works: Producers, herbivores, and carnivores
How an ecosystem works
What is biodiversity, and why is it important?
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Charles Elton
English biologist
Pierre Dansereau
Canadian plant ecologist

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Chutes d'Ekom - a waterfall on the Nkam river in the rainforest near Melong, in the western highlands of Cameroon in Africa.
Ecosystems
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Rusty patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis) photographed in the Midwest in 2017. endangered species insect pollination
What Would Happen If All the Bees Died?