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| a consumer that eats only other animals |
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| the process by which water vapor is changed to liquid water |
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| the process by which liquid water changes to water vapor |
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| the path of energy transfer from one living organism to another in an ecosytem |
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| carbon dioxide-oxygen cycle |
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| a natural cycle in which plants and other producers use carbon dioxide and produce oxygen, and living things use oxygen and produce carbon dioxide |
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| the process of using oxygen to release energy from food |
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| the cycle throgh which nitrogen gas is changed into compounds that can be used by living things and then is returned to the atmosphere |
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| a continuous process in which water moves between the atmosphere and Earth's surface, including its use by living things. |
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| the overlapping food chains that link producers, consumers, and decomposers in an ecosytem |
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| a consumer that eats only plants or other producers |
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| a consumer that eats both plants and animals |
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| organic compounds that form the structure and control the process that take place in living things. |
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