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Section 1 & 4

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an organism that makes its own food   producer  
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an organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms   consumer  
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eat only animals   carnivore  
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eat both plants and animals   omnivore  
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a carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms   scavenger  
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break down wastes and dead organisms and return raw materials to the ecosystem   decomposer  
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a series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy   food chain  
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consists of the many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem   food web  
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shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web   energy pyramid  
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a group of land ecosystems with similar climates and organisms   biome  
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a leafy roof formed by tall trees   canopy  
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a layer of shorter plants that grow in the shade of a forest canopy   understory  
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an area that recieves less than 25 centimeters of precipitation per year   desert  
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an area populated by grasses and other nonwoody plants   grassland  
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a grassland close to the equator that recieves as much as 120 centimeters of rain per year   savanna  
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Trees that shed their leaves and grow new ones each year   deciduous tree  
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Trees that have their seed in cones and leaves shaped like needles   conferous tree  
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Extremely cold and dry biome   tundra  
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Frozen soil   permafrost  
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Where fresh water of a river meets the salt water of an ocean   estuary  
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  intertidal zone  
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  neritic zone  
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