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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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| A consumer that eats only plants |
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| A consumer that eats only animals. |
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| A consumer that eats both plants and animals. |
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| A carnivore that feeds on bodies of dead organisms. |
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| An organism that breaks down wastes and dead organisms. |
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| A series of events inwhich 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 from one feeding level to another in a food web. |
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| The continuous process by which water moves from 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 by whicha gas chages to a liquid. |
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| Rain, snow, sleet, or hail. |
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| The process of changing free nitrogen gas into a usable form. |
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| The study of where organisms live. |
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| THe very slow motion of the continents. |
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| The movement of organisms from one place to another. |
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| Species that are carried to a new location by humans. |
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| THe movement of organisms from one place to another. |
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| Species that are carried to a new location by people. |
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| The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time. |
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| Name the four types of consumers. |
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| Herbivores, scavengers, omnivores and carnivores. |
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| True or False. An organism can be part of more than one food web. |
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| At each level of the energy pyramid, what percent of the energy will go to the next level up. |
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| True or false. In an energy pyramid the most amount of energy is found in the consumers level. |
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| False, the most energy is at the producer level. |
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| What are the three processes in the water cycle? |
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| Evaporation, condensation and precipitation. |
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| Where does energy come from to form heat? |
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| Humans give off water by sweating, how do plants give off water? |
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| What to people breathe in? |
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| Producers release this during photosynthesis. What is it? |
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| What does burning oil and fuels release into the air? |
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| What percent of the air is nitrogen? |
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| What grows on the roots of plants that transforms the nitrogen in the soil into a usable form of nitrogen? |
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| A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms. |
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| Temperate rain forest , tropical rain forest, desert and grasslands. |
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| The second layer of shorter trees below the canopy. |
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| Name three factors that can limit organisms. |
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| Physical barriers, comtetition and climate. |
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| Disperal can be caused by what? |
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| Wind, water, living things including humans. |
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| An area that recieves less than 25cm of rain per year. |
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| area that is populated mostly by grasses. |
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| grasslands that are located closer to the equator. |
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| trees shed their leaves and grow new ones each year. |
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| Nickname for the boreal forest? |
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| Trees that produces the seeds in cones and have needles for leaves. |
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| An extremely cold and dry biome. |
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| the soil is mostly frozen all year. |
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| All aquatic ecosystems are affected by these factors. Sunlight, temperature, oxygen and salt content. |
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| Where the fresh water of rivers meets the salt water of the ocean. |
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| the area between the highest high tide and the lowest lowest low tide line. |
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| below the low tide line where there is shallow water. |
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