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| The process of making food by chemical reactions. |
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| Describes how carbon moves between living and non-living environments. |
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| The change from water vapor to liquid water. Makes clouds. |
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| Animals that eat other animals. Meat-eaters. |
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| Organisms that cannot make their own food. Must eat to get energy. |
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| Organisms that break down dead organisms and waste. Return nutrients to the soil. |
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| Diagram that shows how much energy is available to each type of consumer. |
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| The change from liquid water to water vapor. |
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| An illustration of how energy moves through an ecosystem. |
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| A more complicated model of how energy moves through an ecosystem. Many overlapping food chains. |
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| Animals that eat only plants. |
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| Movement of nitrogen from the atmosphere, to the soil, to living things, then back to the atmosphere. |
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| Animals that eat plants and animals. Most humans, bears. |
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| Describes how phosphorus moves from the soil to producers and consumers, then back to the soil. |
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| The process by which plats make food using the suns energy. |
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| Water falling back to Earth as rain, snow, sleet or hail. |
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| Organisms that are able to make their own food. |
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| Animals that eat dead animals. |
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| Movement of water from Earth's surface to the atmosphere then back. Evaporation, condensation, precipitation. |
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