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Ch 5 EP

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Decomposer   breakdown dead organisms  
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Producers   energy directly from sun, plants, algae  
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Consumers   energy indirectly from sun, eat other animals, carnivore  
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Chemosynthesis   bacteria use hydrogen sulfide to make energy  
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Herbivores   energy from producers  
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10% Law   10% of energy from one level is passed to the next,90% lost as heat and keeps the organism alive  
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Fossil Fuels   carbon for living things millions of years ago, coal, oil, natural gas  
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Atmosphere   78% nitrogen  
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Pioneer species   lichen, first organism to colonize an area  
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Fire   causes trees to release seeds, clears deadwood, encourage new growth  
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Succession   new species make environment less fit for old species  
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Primary succession   when nothing has lived there before, soil would contain lichens, rocks, dust  
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Secondary succession   growth of plants after forest fire  
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Carbon cycle    
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Humans   increase carbon dioxide, carbon enters ecosystem through photosynthesis  
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Limestone   large carbon reserve  
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Respiration   equation, opposite of photosynthesis, oxygen is a reactant, produces energy, glucose and oxygen produce carbon dioxide, water, and energy  
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Photosynthesis   sunlight made into sugar, equation  
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Energy   can be stored in fat and sugar molecules,  
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Phosphorus   effected by fertilizer  
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Nitrogen cycle   bacteria change nitrogen into a usable form (nitrogen fixing bacteria), effected by fertilizer  
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Food Chain   direct line of feeding  
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Food web   many feeding relationships in an ecosystem  
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Sink   where nutrients are stored  
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Legumes   plants with nitrogen fixing bacteria  
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Climax community   final stable community  
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