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| An organism that obtains energy by feeding on other organisms. |
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| Organisms that use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to make glucose through a process called photosynthesis. |
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| Organisms that break down dead organisms and return raw materials to the ecosystem. |
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| A sereies of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy. |
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| A group of overlapping food chains that show the flow of energy for the whole ecosystem, not just a group of organisms. |
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| A diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web. |
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| A cycle that shows how an environment recycles water. |
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| A cycle that shows how an environment recycles carbon dioxide. |
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| A cycle that shows how an environment recycles oxygen |
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| A cycle that shows how nitrogen moves from the air to the soil, into living things, and then back into the air. |
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| The movement of organisms from one place to another. |
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| A group of land ecosystems with similar climates and ecosystems. |
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| Trees that shed their leaves and grow new ones each year. |
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| Trees that produce their seeds inside cones and have needle-like leaves. |
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| A marine ecosystem where the freshwater of a river meets the saltwater of the ocean. |
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| A marine ecosystem that's inbetween the high-tide and the low-tide. |
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| A marine ecosystem that's below the low-tide. |
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