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creative use of vocabulary 2
creative use of vocabulary 2
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7th Grade
10/05/2011

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PRODUCER
Definition
an organism that can make its own food
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CONSUMER
Definition
an organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
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HERBIVORE
Definition
a cansumer that eats only plants
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CARNIVORE
Definition
an consumer that eats only animals
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OMNIVORE
Definition
a consumer that eats both plants and animals
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SCAVENGER
Definition
a carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
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DECOMPOSER
Definition
an organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms
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FOOD CHAIN
Definition
a series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
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FOOD WEB
Definition
the pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem
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ENERGY PYRAMID
Definition
a diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web
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EVAPORATION
Definition
when water is turned into water vapor
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CONDENSATION
Definition
when water vapor turns to clouds
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PRECIPITATION
Definition
when rain coms out of the clouds
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NITROGEN FIXATION
Definition
changing unusable nitrogen int a usable form
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BIOGEOGRAPHY
Definition
the study of where organisms live
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