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| The continuous processs by which water moves from the Earth's surface and back. |
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| An organism that makes its own food. |
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| An organism that obtains energy by eating other organisms. |
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| An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms and returns raw materials to the environment. |
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| Consumers that eat only plants. |
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| Consumers that eat only animals. |
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| Consumers that eat both plants and animals. |
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| A carnivore that eats bodies of dead organisms. |
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| The process in which water turns into a gas. |
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| The process in which gas turns into a liquid. |
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| When water vapor condenses and falls to Earth as rain, snow, sleet , or hail. |
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| The process of changing free nitrogen into a usable form of nitrogen. |
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| A series of events in which one organism eats another organism to obtain energy. |
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| The overlapping food chains in an ecosystem. |
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| A pyramid that shows the amount of energy from one feeding level to the next in a food web. |
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