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Science Vocabulary for Chapter 2

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producer   an organism that makes its own food  
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herbivore   a consumer that only eats plpants  
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carnivore   a consumer that only eats meat  
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omnivore   a consumer that eats both plants and meat  
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consumer   an organism that obtains energy from energy from feeding on other organisms  
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scavenger   a carnivore that feeds off on the dead bodies of organisms  
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decomposer   organisms that feed off of dead things and return the nutrients ( to the soil)  
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food web   overlapping food chains  
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food chain   a series of events in which one organism eaats another and obtains energy  
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energy pyramid   shows the amount of energy in that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web  
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water cycle   processes of evaporation, condensation, and precipitation make it up  
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carbon and oxygen cycle   processes by which carbon and oxygen are recycled are linked  
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nitrogen   notrogen moves from the air to the soil, into living things and back into the air  
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evaporation   process by which liquid water changes to water vapor  
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condensation   process by which water vapor changes to liquid water  
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precipitation   process by which water, in any form, (rain snow hail, sleet,) falls from the atmosphere to the earths surface  
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nitrogen fixation   process by which changing free nirtogen into a usable form  
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