List #3 Practice

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** one group of organisms that are too small to be seen without a microscope. Many kinds of bacteria are decomposers **

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** Bacteria **

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** a molecule made of carbon and oxygen atoms; a gas found in air that is used to make food by plants through photosynthesis **

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** Carbon dioxide **

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** The process of moving blood in a large, complicated loop through the body. **

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** Circulation **

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** A mixture of soil and decaying matter that provides the materials that plants need. **

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** compost **

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** an organism that gets energy by eating other organisms. **

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** Consumer **

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** an organism that gets energy storage molecules (such as glucose) by breaking down dead matter. **

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** decomposer **

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** The process that breaks down food into simple materials that an animal’s body can use. **

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** digestion **

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** A group of organisms that are not plants or animals and that act as decomposers. Molds and mushrooms are examples. **

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** fungi **

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** a gas found in air that is used during cellular respiration and produced as waste during photosynthesis. **

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** oxygen **

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** the process by which plants and other producers make their own food, using energy from sunlight to change carbon dioxide and water into oxygen and sugar. **

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** photosynthesis **