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| An area where the main plants are trees. |
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| A group of the same kind of living things that live in the same place at the same time. |
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| Populations that live in the same place. |
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| The interactions between the living and nonliving parts of the environment. |
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| Provides a population with all its needs and includes nonlving things and living things. |
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| Have warm summers and cool winters. The trees drop their leaves in fall. |
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| Tropical Rain Forest and Coastal Rain Forest |
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| Two types of forests that get a lot of rain. |
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| Everything that surrounds a living thing. |
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| The winters are cold in this forest and the trees have needle-shaped leaves. |
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| Water in the seas and oceans. |
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| Have hot summers and cold winers. |
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| Can be hot and cold and is usually very dry. |
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| Have few large trees because the soil is too dry. |
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| Feeds on the wastes of other living things. |
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| Have hot summers and cold winers. |
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| A fish or an animal that is hunted and eaten by another consumer. |
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| The path of food in an ecosystem. |
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| A living thing that makes its own food. |
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| A living thing that eats other living things. |
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| Animals that eat both plants and animals. |
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| Several linked food chains. |
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| Consumers that eat only plants. |
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| An animal that hunts its food. |
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| A model of how energy moves through a food web. |
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| Consumers that eat only animals. |
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