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Hō‘ike o Haleakalā Curriculum

High school science curriculum designed by Maui teachers and field biologists

Glossary

  • aa
  • Abiogenic
  • Absolute Age
  • Abundance
  • Accrete
  • Active beach
  • Adaptation
  • Adaptive optics
  • Adaptive radiation
  • Adaptive shift
  • aeolian
  • Alien
  • Anchialine pond
  • Aquifer
  • Arboreal
  • Arthropod
  • Assumption
  • Baseline data
  • Beach
  • Bioaccumulation
  • Biocontrol
  • Biodiversity
  • Bioerosion
  • Biogenic
  • Biological toxin
  • Biomass
  • Brackish
  • Brood
  • Budding
  • Calcareous
  • Canoe plants
  • Canopy
  • Carnivore
  • Cartilagenous fish
  • Ciguatoxin
  • Cinder
  • Cloud forest
  • Comparative dating technique
  • Confused seas
  • Containment
  • Control site
  • Coralline algae
  • Coriolis effect
  • Cover
  • Crater
  • Cyst
  • Daughter product
  • Decomposers
  • Detrital
  • Detritivore
  • Detritus
  • Dew point
  • Dinoflagellate
  • Dispersal mechanism
  • Doldrums
  • Echinoderm
  • Ecosystem
  • Emergent land
  • Endangered
  • Endangered
  • Endemic
  • Endemism
  • Environmental assessment
  • Environmental impact statement
  • Environmental review
  • Ephemeral
  • Eradicate
  • Eutrophication
  • Evapotranspiration
  • Evolution
  • Exoskeleton
  • Experimental design
  • Extrapolate
  • Feral
  • Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI)
  • Fixed photoquadrat method
  • Fog drip
  • Foriminifera
  • Fossil assemblage
  • Founding species
  • Frequency
  • Frugivorous
  • Generalist
  • Globalization
  • Groin
  • Ground water
  • Ground water recharge
  • Hadley Cell
  • Helioseismology
  • Herbivore
  • Hypothesis
  • Impact site
  • Impoundment
  • Indigenous
  • Insecticide
  • Insectivore
  • Instrumental value
  • Interisland dispersal
  • Intertidal zone
  • Intrinsic value
  • Introduced species
  • Invasive plant
  • Inversion layer
  • Invertebrate
  • Isolation
  • Isotope
  • Knot
  • Lapse rate
  • Larva
  • Lifting condensation level
  • Littoral
  • Littoral budget
  • Littoral zone
  • Longshore current
  • Magnetic secular variation
  • Marine protected area
  • Mechanical erosion
  • Mesoscale
  • Miconia
  • Migratory
  • Monitoring
  • Monogyne
  • Monomorphic
  • Montane bog
  • Multicolonial
  • Naiad
  • Narrowly endemic
  • Native
  • Natural population
  • Naturalize
  • Nautical mile
  • Neap tide
  • Nectivorous
  • Nuptial flight
  • Observatory
  • Observer bias
  • Orographic lifting
  • Orographic rain
  • Osmoconformer
  • Osmoregulator
  • Overexploitation
  • Pahoehoe
  • Paleomagnetic dating
  • Parasitism
  • Pelagic
  • Percent cover
  • Permeability rate
  • Pesticide
  • Photoquadrat method
  • Photosynthesis
  • Phytoplankton
  • Pipped egg
  • Piscivorous
  • Pitfall trap
  • Plankton
  • Plot
  • Point-intercept method
  • Polygyne
  • Polynesian introduction
  • Polyp
  • Porous
  • Potassium-argon dating
  • Primary consumers
  • Primary producers
  • Pupa
  • Pyroclastic
  • Quantitative
  • Queen
  • Radio frequency interference
  • Radioactive decay
  • Radioactivity
  • Radiocarbon dating
  • Radiometric dating
  • Reference course
  • Relative humidity
  • Relative time scale
  • Revetment
  • Rhizome
  • Runoff
  • Salinity
  • Sand banks
  • Scarping
  • Seawall
  • Secondary consumers
  • Sediment
  • Sediment sink
  • Sediment source
  • Sedimentation
  • Shoreline armoring
  • Shoreline setback
  • Significant
  • Sinks
  • Soil-moisture storage
  • Sources
  • Spatter
  • Substratum
  • Succession
  • Succulent
  • Surface water
  • Sustainable yield
  • Swell
  • Target screen
  • Tephra
  • Terrestrial
  • Terrigenous
  • Tertiary consumers
  • Test
  • Toxicant
  • Trade wind
  • Trade wind inversion
  • Tramp species
  • Transect
  • Transpire
  • Trophallaxis
  • Trophic levels
  • Tropical alpine environment
  • Tropopause
  • Under-rock survey
  • Ungulate
  • Unicolonial
  • Unicolony
  • Vertebrate
  • Vesicle
  • Viable
  • Viscosity
  • Visual strip-transect search
  • Vog
  • Volcanic ash
  • Volcanic ejecta
  • Volcano
  • Water budget
  • Wayfinder
  • Windward ability
  • Zonation
  • Zooplankton
  • Zooxanthellae

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