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| An organism that can make its own food |
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| An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms |
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| An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms |
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| A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms |
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| A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms |
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| An area that recieves less than 25 centimeters of precipitation each year |
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| The continuous process by which water moves from the Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back |
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| The process by which molecules of a liquid absorb energy and change to a gas |
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| The process in which a gas changes into a liquid |
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| A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy |
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| The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem |
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| A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves one feeding level to another in a food web |
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| The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form |
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| An extremely cold, dry biome |
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| A consumer that eats only animals |
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| The study of where organisms live |
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| The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time |
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| The movement of organisms from one place to another |
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| An area populated by grasses and other nonwoody plants. Most grasslands get 25 to 75 centimeters of rain each year |
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| A consumer that eats only plants |
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| A consumer that eats both plants and animals |
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