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15 Cards in this Set
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Carnivore |
Consumers that only eat animals |
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Condensation |
The change in state from a gas to a liquid |
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Consumer |
An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms |
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Decomposer |
An organism that gets energy by breaking down biotic wastes and dead organisms |
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Ecosystem |
The community of organisms that live in a particular area, along with their nonliving environment |
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Energy Pyramid |
A diagram that shows the amount of that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web |
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Evaporation |
The process by which molecules at the surface of a liquid absorb enough energy to change to a gas |
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Food Chain |
A series of events in an ecosystem in which organisms transfer energy by eating and by being eaten |
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Food Web |
The pattern of overlapping feeding relationship or food chains among the various organisms in an ecosystem |
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Herbivore |
An consumer that obtains energy by eating only plants |
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Nitrogen Fixation |
The process of changing free nitrogen gas into nitrogen compounds that plants can absorb and use |
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Omnivore |
A consumer that obtains energy by eating both plants and animals |
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Precipitation |
Any form of water that falls feom clouds and reaches earths surface as rain, snow, sleet, or hail |
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Producer |
An organism that makes its own food |
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Scavenger |
A carnivore that feeds on the bodies of dead or decaying organisms |
