Ecosystems & Biomes
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| producer | an organism that makes its own food
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| consumer | an organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms
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| herbivore | consumers that eat only plants
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| carnivore | consumers that eat only animals
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| omnivore | consumers that eat both plants and animals
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| scavenger | a carnivore that feeds on the dead bodies of organisms
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| decomposers | they break down waste and dead organisms and return the raw materials to the ecosystem
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| food chain | a series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
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| food web | it consists of many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem
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| energy pyramid | shows the amount of of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web
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| water cycle | the continuous process by which water moves from the earths surface to the atmosphere and back
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| evaporation | the process by which molecules of liquid water absorb energy and change to gas
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| condensation | the process by which a gas changes to a liquid
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| precipitation | as more water vapor condenses, the drops of water in the cloud grow larger
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| nitrogen fixation | the process of changing free nitrogen into a usable form of nitrogen
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