Ecosystems
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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 | an animal that eats only plants
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| carnivore | an animal that eats only other animals
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| omnivore | an animal that eats both plants and animals
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| scavenger | a carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead organisms
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| decomposer | an organism that breaks down large chemicals from dead organisms into small chemicals and returns important material to the soil and water
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| food chain | a series of event in which one organism eats another
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| energy pyramid | a diagram that shows the amount 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 Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
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| condensation | the process by which a gas changes to a liquid
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| evaporation | the process by which molecules of a liquid absorb energy and change to the gas state
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| precipitation | rain, snow, sleet or hail occur when water vapor condenses and eventually fall to Earth
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| nitrogen fixation | the process of changing free nitrogen gas into a useable form
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| biogeography | the study of where organisms live
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| dispersal | the movement of organisms from one place to another
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| native species | species that have naturally evolved in an area
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| exotic species | species that are carried to 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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| biome | a group of ecosystems with similar climates and organisms
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| canopy | a leafy roof formed by tall trees
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| understory | a layer of shorter plants that grow in the shade of a forest canopy
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| desert | an area in which the yearly amount of evaporation is greater than the amount of precipitation
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| grassland | an area populated by grasses that gets 25 to 75 cm of rain each year
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| savanna | a grassland close to the equator
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| deciduous tree | trees that shed their leaves and grow new ones each year
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| coniferous tree | trees that produce their seeds in cones and have needle-shaped leaves
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| tundra | an extremely cold, dry biome
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| permafrost | soil that is frozen all year
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| estuary | a habitat in which the fresh water of a river meets the salt water of the ocean
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| intertidal zone | the area between the highest high-tide line and the lowest low-tide line
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| neritic zone | the region of shallow ocean water over the continental shelf
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