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33 Cards in this Set
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acid rain
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rain that contains unhealthy amounts of acid
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adaptation
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a structure or behavior that helps and organism survive in its habitat
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biome
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a very large area of land with a certain kind of climate and certain kinds or organisms living it it
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competition
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the struggle of organisms against each other to get the same resource
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compost
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a mixture of soil and decayed material that provides nutrients for plants
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coniferous forest
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a forest biome with trees that keep their needlelike leaves for at least a few years
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conservation
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the wise use and protection of natural resources
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consumer
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an organism that gets energy by eating other organisms
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deciduous forest
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a forest biome with many kinds of trees that lose their leaves each autumn
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decomposer
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an organism that gets energy by feeding on dead materials and wastes
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desert
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a biome that has very little rain and few plants
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ecosystem
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all the living and nonliving things that interact with each other in an environment
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environment
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the surroundings that an organism lives in
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endangered species
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a species that could become extinct very soon if it is not helped by people
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extinction
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the dying out of a species
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fertile
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describes soil that can support plant life
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food chain
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the path of food energy from one organism to another in an ecosystem
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food web
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the overlapping of food chains with different pathways for the flow of food energy in an ecosystem
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global warming
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a rise in the earth's average worldwide temperature
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grasslands
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a biome where grasses, not trees, are the main plant life.
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habitat
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the environment where an organism lives
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herbivore
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an animal that eats only plant products
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humus
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decaying plant and animal materials in the soil
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omnivore
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an animal that eats both plants and animals
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population
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all the organisms of the same species that live in the same place at the same time
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predator
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an animal that hunts, catches, and eats other animals
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prey
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an animal that is hunted caught, and eaten by another animal
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producer
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an organism that makes its own food
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savanna
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a kind of grassland
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species
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a group of organisms of the same kind that can mate and produce offspring like themselves
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threatened species
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a species that could become endangered if its numbers contine to decline
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tundra
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a biome with cold temperatures and not much rain
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climate graph
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a line that shows the temperature and bar graph that show the precipitation of one place over a long time
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