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Ch 5- How Ecosystems work- pg. 142 Brittney compton

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Photosynthesis   Energy from the sun to the ecosystem transfered to the plant for food.  
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producer   An organisim that makes its own food.  
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Consumers   Organisims that get their energy by eating other organisims.  
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Decomposers   organisims that break down dead rotting organisims.  
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cellular respiratoin   The process of breaking down food to yeld energy which occurs in inside the cells of most organisims.  
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Food chain   Is a sequence in which energy is transferd from one organisim to the next.  
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Food web   Shows many feeding relationships that are posible in an ecosystem.  
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Trophic level   Each step through which energy is transfered in a food chain.  
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Carbon cycle   Is a process by which carbon is cycled between the atmosphere, land, water, and organisims.  
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Nitrogin-fixing Bacteria   the only bacteria that can fix atmoshpheric nitrognen compond.  
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Nitrogin Cycle   a process in which nitrogen is cycled between the atmosphere,bacteria, and other organisims.  
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Phosphorus Cycle   is the movement of phrosphorus from the enviroment to the organisims and then back to enviroment.  
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Ecological succession   is a gradual process of change and repacement of some or all of the species in a community.  
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primary succession   is the type of succession that occurs on a surface where no ecosystem existed before.  
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Seccondary succession   the more common type of succession,occurs on a surface where a ecosystem has previously exsisted.  
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Pioneer species   the first organisims to colonize any newly avaliable area and begin the process of ecological succession.  
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Climax communitity   is a final and stable community  
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