Vocab. Chapter #3
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each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| carnivore | consumers that eat only other consumers (flesh-eaters)
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| cellular respiration | the process of breaking down food to yield energy
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| climax community | the community that eventually forms if the land is left undisturbed
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| consumer | gets energy by eating other organisms
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| decomposer | consumers that get their food by breaking down dead organisms, causing them to rot.
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| food chain | sequence in which energy is transferred from one organism to the next as each organism eats another.
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| food web | an illustration of what organisms eat in an ecosystem
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| herbivore | consumers that eat only producers (plant-eaters)
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| nitrogen-fixing bacteria | the only organisms that can use nitrogen gas directly from the atmosphere are a few species of bacteria
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| omnivore | eats both the producers and consumers (plants and animals)
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| pioneers | the first organisms to colonize any newly available area and start the process of succession.
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| precipitation | When the clouds meet cold air, the water returns to the earth again in the form of precipitation, rain, sleet or snow.
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| primary succession | succession that occurs on surfaces where not ecosystem existed before
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| producer | an organism that makes its own food
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| secondary succession | occurs on a surface where an ecosystem has previously existed, such as in the burned aras around Mount St. Halens
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| succession | is a regular pattern of changes over time in the types of species in a community.
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| trophic level | each step in the transfer of energy through an ecosystem
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| water cycle | water moves between the Earth's surface and the atmosphere in a process called the water cycle.
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