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biogeography 5th

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biogeography   the study of where organisms live  
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continental drift   as the plates move, continents move with them  
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dispersal   the movement of organisms from one plate to another  
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exotic species   an organism that is carried into a new location by people  
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climate   the typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time  
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water cycle   is the continuous process by which water moves from 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 a gas  
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condensation   the process by which a gas changes to a liquid  
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precipitation   heavy drops of water falling to the earth  
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nitrogen fixaion   the process of changing free nitrogen into usable form of nitrogen  
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producer   an organism that can make its own food  
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consumer   an organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organism  
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herbivores   consumers that eat only plants  
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carnivores   consumers that eat only animals  
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omnivores   consumers that eat both plants and animals  
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scavenger   is a carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms  
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decomposers   break down wastes and dead organisms and return the raw materials to the ecosystem  
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food chain   is a series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy  
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food web   consists of the many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem  
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energy pyramid   shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web  
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