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 ICE AGE An ice age is a time lasting thousands of years during which the Earth is very cold and largely covered by ice and glaciers. |
 IGNEOUS ROCK When molten rock cools, igneous rock is formed. |
 IGUANA Many iguanas live in rainforests, including the green iguana. |
  INDEX FOSSILS Index fossils are commonly found fossils that are limited in time span. They help in dating other fossils. For example: trilobites were common during the Paleozoic, but not found before the Permian period, and ammonites were common during the Mesozoic Era, but not found after the Cretaceous period. |
INDIGENOUS Indigenous organisms are natives to that locality. |
| INDIGENOUS PEOPLE Indigenous people are native to that locality. A group indigenous to the Amazon rainforest is the Yanomani. |
INDRI Indris are a type of lemur with a very short stump of a tail; they are the largest type of lemur alive today. Tho loud call of the indri can be heard for over a mile. These large-eyed primates live in small familiy groups and eat leaves and fruits. Indris are only found in Madagascar. They are called "babakoto" in the Malagasy language. |
  INSECTS Insects have exoskeletons and six legs. They evolved during the Silurian Period, 438 to 408 mya, long before dinosaurs or whales existed. |
INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION Interspecific competition is competition between two different species of organisms (competing for food, territory, etc.). |
INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION Intraspecific competition is competition among members of a species (competing for food, mates, territory, etc.). |
 INVERTEBRATE Invertebrates are animals without a backbone. Some invertebrates include protozoans, arthropods (insects, arachnids, crustaceans, etc.), worms, jellyfish, sponges, mollusks (like cephalopods [octopus], gastropods, bivalves [clams, oysters, scallops]), and many others. |
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