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Chapter 2 vocab
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7th Grade
10/04/2011

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Producer
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An organism that can make its own food
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Consumer
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An orgaism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
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Herbivore
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A consumer that eats only plants
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Carnivore
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A consumer that eats only animals
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Omnivore
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A consumer that eats both plants and animals
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Scavenger
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A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
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decomposer
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An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
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Food chain
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A series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
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Food web
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The pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem
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Energy pyramid
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A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web
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Biome
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A group of land ecosystems wit similar climates and organisms
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Water cycle
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The contiunuous process by which water moves from earth's surface to the atmoshere and back
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Nitrogen fixation
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The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form
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Interidal zone
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The area between the highest high-tidew line and lowest low-tide line
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Neritic zone
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The region of shallow ocean water over the continental shelf
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VOCAB
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