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First organism in a food chain, web, or pyramid

• habitat
• niche
• producer
• consumer

resources that are exhaustible, cannot be replaced, or are replaced more slowly than they are made 

• nonrenewable
• recyclable
• renewable
• reusable

resources that can be replaced faster than they can be used up or cannot be used up (water, sun, trees, etc.)

• nonrenewable
• recyclable
• renewable
• reusable

rich, fertile area on the side of a river created by flooding

• floodplain
• flood stage
• deposition
• erosion

process that leaves soil behind

• weathering
• erosion
• deposition
• floodplain

process that washes away the sides of a meandering river created by flooding

• weathering
• erosion
• deposition
• floodplain

high ground between two watersheds or drainage basins

• water table
• drainage divide
• floodplain
• watershed

area that is drained by a river and all of its tributaries

• drainage divide
• water table
• watershed
• floodplain

area at the top of the zone of saturation; top of the water level

• water level
• water table
• water zone
• water saturation

groundwater area where the water fills up all the spaces

• zone of saturation
• zone of aeration
• zone of proximation