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Ecology Part 2
Chapter 13
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6th Grade
05/11/2010

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Chemosynthesis
Definition
The process of making food by chemical reactions.
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Carbon Cycle
Definition
Describes how carbon moves between living and non-living environments.
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Condensation
Definition
The change from water vapor to liquid water. Makes clouds.
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Carnivore
Definition
Animals that eat other animals. Meat-eaters.
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Consumer
Definition
Organisms that cannot make their own food. Must eat to get energy.
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Decomposer
Definition
Organisms that break down dead organisms and waste. Return nutrients to the soil.
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Energy Pyramid
Definition
Diagram that shows how much energy is available to each type of consumer.
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Evaporation
Definition
The change from liquid water to water vapor.
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Food Chain
Definition
An illustration of how energy moves through an ecosystem.
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Food Web
Definition
A more complicated model of how energy moves through an ecosystem. Many overlapping food chains.
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Herbivore
Definition
Animals that eat only plants.
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Nitrogen Cycle
Definition
Movement of nitrogen from the atmosphere, to the soil, to living things, then back to the atmosphere.
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Omnivore
Definition
Animals that eat plants and animals. Most humans, bears.
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Phosphorus Cycle
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Describes how phosphorus moves from the soil to producers and consumers, then back to the soil.
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Photosynthesis
Definition
The process by which plats make food using the suns energy.
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Precipitation
Definition
Water falling back to Earth as rain, snow, sleet or hail.
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Producer
Definition
Organisms that are able to make their own food.
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Scavenger
Definition
Animals that eat dead animals.
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Water Cycle
Definition
Movement of water from Earth's surface to the atmosphere then back. Evaporation, condensation, precipitation.
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