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7th Grade
10/04/2011

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Producer
Definition
An organism that can make its own food
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Consumers
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An orgainism that gets energy by feeding on other organisms
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Decomposers
Definition
break down wastes and dead orgainims and return the raw materials to the ecosystems
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Food Chain
Definition
A seriies of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy
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Food Web
Definition
Consists of the many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem
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Energy Pyramid
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Shows the amount of energy moves from one feeding level to another in a food web
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Water Cycle
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The continuouns process by which water moves for Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back
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Evaporation
Definition
The process by which molecules of liquid water absorb energy and change to a gas
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Condensation
Definition
the process by which a gas changes to a liquid water
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Precipitation
Definition
Rain, Sleet, Snow, or Hail
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Nitrogen Fixation
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The process of changing free nirtogen into a usable for of nitrogen
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Biogeography
Definition
The study of when orgainisms live
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Continental Drift
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AS the plates move, the continents move with them
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Dispersal
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The movement of orgainism from one place to another
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Climate
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The typical weather pattern in an area over a long period of time
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