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Biosphere   Part of Earth where life exists  
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Ecosystem   Made up of a community of organisms  
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Community   Consists of all of the populations of species that live and interact in the ecosystem  
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Population   Group of species that live together  
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Organism   Individual living thing  
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Producers   Make their own food using energy from the sun  
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Cosumers   Cannot make their own food, and need to eat plants and other animals for energy  
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Decomposers   Eat decaying matter (dead plants and animals). Break matter down and release nutrients and minerals back into the soil  
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Herbivore   Eats only plants  
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Carnivore   Eats only meat  
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Omnivore   Eats both plants and meat  
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Scavenger   Eats dead plants and animals  
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Food chain   Shows how each living thing gets food  
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Food chains always begin with a...   producer  
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Food web   Collection of food chains interconnected  
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Energy pyramid   Shows the amount of energy available at each trophic level of an ecosystem  
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Limiting Factor   Resource that is so scarce that it limits the size of a population  
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Carrying capacity   Largest population that an environment can support  
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Competition   When two or more organisms try to use the same resources  
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Prey   Organism that is killed and eaten by another  
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Predator   Organism that eats all or part of another  
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Symbiosis   Relationship in which two different organisms live in close association with each other  
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Mutualism   Benefit from  
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Commensalism   Unaffected by  
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Parasitism   Harmed by  
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Water Cycle   Process by which water moves through the Earth and atmosphere  
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Evaporation   Process that occurs when water changes from a liquid to a gas  
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Condensation   Cooling of water in the atmosphere, changing a gas to a liquid  
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Precipitataion   Water droplets fall from the atmosphere in the form of rain, sleet, snow, or hail  
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Transpiration   Passage of water vapor form a plant to the atmosphere  
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Runoff   Rainfall that is not absorbed by soil and travels to the ocean  
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Carbon Cycle   Exchange of carbon between the environment and living things  
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Decomposition   Breakdown of substances into simpler molecules  
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Combustion   Burning of a substance  
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Nitrogen Cycle   Movement of nitrogen between the environment and living things  
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Nitrogen Fixation   Bacteria in the soil and lightning are able to change nitrogen gas into forms that plants can use  
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