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| A green substance in plant leaves that captures energy from the sun. |
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| The process in which plants use energy from the sun to make their own food. |
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| An organism that makes its own food. |
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| A change an organism undergoes in order to survive. |
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| The specific environment where an organism lives. |
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| all the organisms of the same species that live in the same area at the same time. |
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| Populations of a different species that live in the same area at the same time. |
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| All the populations of organisms and the nonliving things in am environment, and the interaction among them. |
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| One of the 6 major areas of the world that is home to specific plant and animal populations and is defined by its climate. |
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| Anything in the environment that can harm living organisms or damage the natural resources there. |
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| An organisms role in an ecosystem based on how it gets its food. |
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| Animals that eat other organisms. |
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| Animlas thta eat only plants. |
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| Animals that eat only other animals. |
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| Animals that eat both plants and animals. |
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| Animals that hunt other animals for food. |
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| Animals that are hunted by predators. |
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| Organisms that feed on and breaks down dead plants and animals. |
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| The path of energy from the sun to a plant to an animal to another animal. |
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| A group pf overlapping food chains. |
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| Group of living things that are all the same kind. |
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| The study of living and nonliving things and their interactions |
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| Gets smaller from bottom to top because energy is used up at each level. |
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