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5th Grade Science Vocabulary L to J
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A nonliving part of an ecosystem
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Increase of speed or velocity
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A picture that shows Earth’s
surfaces…taken from outer space.
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Large body of air that has the same
temperature and humidity throughout.
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Exertion of power or force
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Precipitation, as rain, snow, or sleet,
containing relatively high concentrations of
acid-forming chemicals; harmful to the
environment
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The weight of the air in an area.
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Instrument used to measure the speed of
wind.
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Forces that have a net force of zero…no
movement will occur
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Instrument used to measure air pressure
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A natural or artificial hollow place
containing water
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Any part of an ecosystem that is living
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Deep valley with steep sides created by
moving water.
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An animal that eats meat or flesh
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A high cloud that is white and wispy
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The zone separating two air masses, of
which the cooler, denser mass is
advancing and replacing the warmer.
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Living with, on, or in another, without
injury to either.
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All the populations that live in an area.
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The change of a substance from the
gaseous to the liquid state…like when
water vapor forms small drops of water.
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An organism that gets energy by eating
other organisms.
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Map that shows elevation with contour
circles.
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Clouds that bring thunderstorms or severe
weather.
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Vertical clouds that are puffy white, or
light gray clouds that look like floating
cotton balls.
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Something used to stop the flow of water.
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Decrease in speed.
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An organism that gets energy by breaking
down nutrients in dead organisms.
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A low, flat piece of land at or near the
mouth of a river.
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The process of adding sand or soil to a
new location.
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A region so arid because of little rainfall
that it supports only sparse and widely
spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all.
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Resistance to movement.
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A group of living things and their nonliving
environment.
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Height above sea level
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A species that is nearly extinct.
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The capacity to do work…it can be used to
move muscles, operate machines, cook
meals, and heat rooms.
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The great circle of the earth that is
equidistant from the North Pole and South
Pole.
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The process of natural forces moving soil
and small rocks from one place to another.
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The change of phase from liquid into a
gas, water vapor.
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The act or process of becoming extinct; a
coming to an end or dying out.
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Flat land near a river formed by deposition
during floods.
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The path of energy as it flows from one
organism to the next.
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A diagram of several connected food
chains.
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Push or pull on an object.
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The force that acts on an object to stop its
motion.
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The support, or point of rest, on which a
lever turns in moving a body.
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Force that pulls things towards Earth.
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Physical space occupied by a population.
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A consumer that eats only plants.
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The amount of water vapor in the air.
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A slanted surface.
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The tendency of an object to remain at
rest or in motion unless it is acted on by a
force.
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Strong, generally westerly winds
concentrated in a relatively narrow and
shallow stream in the upper troposphere
of the Earth.
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The movement of air created by cool air
over land moving toward the ocean.
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An embankment designed to prevent the
flooding of a river.
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Simple machine made up of a stiff bar that
rests on a middle support.
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The amount of space an object takes up.
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A looping change of direction in a river or
stream.
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The act, process, or industry of extracting
ores, coal, from mines.
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The product of the mass and velocity of
an object.
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The movement of air caused by cool air
sinking and moving down the slope of a
mountain.
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A relationship between two species of
organisms in which both benefit from the
association.
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The habitat and lifestyle of a population.
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A resource that can not be replaced…such
as water.
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Northern most part of the Earth…where
the Arctic region is located
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A consumer that eats both plants and
animals
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a relation between organisms in which one
lives as a parasite on another
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a chemical preparation for destroying
plant, fungal, or animal pests
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land area having a relatively level surface
considerably raised above adjoining land
on at least one side, and often cut by
deep canyons.
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the introduction of harmful substances or
products into the environment
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a group of organisms of the same species
living in the same place
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an extensive, level or slightly hilly, mostly
treeless piece of land in the Mississippi
Valley, characterized by a highly fertile soil
and originally covered with coarse grasses,
and merging into drier plateus in the west
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any form of water that falls from the sky
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an organism that eats other organisms
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the west-to-east winds that occur in the
temperate zones of the Earth
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an organism that is eaten by another
organism
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organisms that produce their own food
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a simple machine that uses grooved
wheels and a rope to raise, lower, or move
a load
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weather instrument used to measure the
amount of rainfall in a given area
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a tropical forest, usually of tall, densely
growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in
an area of high annual rainfall
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the response of an object to an action
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to treat or process (used or waste
materials) so as to make suitable for reuse
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map that shows the landforms
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a natural resource that can be replaced,
such as trees
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rain that lands on top of a mountain,
travels down the mountain to lower groud,
moving over and through the rock and
soil, and joins larger bodies of water or
forms streams
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an animal or other organism that feeds on
dead organic matter
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an inclined plane that is wrapped aroiund
a pole; holds things together and can be
used to lift materials
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the movement of air caused by cool air
over the ocean moving toward the land
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mineral or organic matter deposited by
water, air, or ice.
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a tool that makes work easier
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the degree of change in elevation over a
piece of land
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what the soil of an area is made up
of…types of minerals, and rocks in the
soil
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southern most part of the Earth…where
Antarctica is located
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a measurement of distance over time
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a large layer of clouds…looks like it
blankets the sky and is associated with
rain or snow
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the living together of two different
organisms, as in mutualism,
commensalism, or parasitism
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The measure of the amount of heat
something has
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A species likely, in the near future, to
become an endangered species
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A map that shows the elevation and
landforms
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The wind that blows in one regular couse,
or continually in the same direction
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A river or stream that does not reach the
ocean
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One of the vast, nearly level, treeless
plains of the arctic regions of Europe,
Asia, and North America
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Forces that have a net force…causes
movement
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The rate at which cities are becoming
larger and more populated
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• the movement or air created by warm air
rising and flowing up the slope of a
mountain
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A long depression in Earth’s surface that
usually contains a river
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The time rate of change of position of a
body in a specified direction
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a transition zone between a mass of warm
air and the colder air it is replacing
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• places where water builds up…oceans
lakes, rivers
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Water that is in the air
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a simple machine that has a least one
slanted side that ends in a sharp edge
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the amount of heaviness of an object
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a simple machine made up of a wheel with a
rod through its center that lifts or moves
loads
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the direction that the wind is blowing
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 abiotic
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factor
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 acceleration
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 acid
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 action
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 aerial
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map
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 air
mass
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air pressure
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 anemometer
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 balanced
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forces
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 barometer
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 basin
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 biotic
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factor
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 canyon
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 carnivore
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 cirrus
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cloud
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 cold
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front
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 commensalism
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 community
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 condensation
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 consumer
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 contour
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map
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 cumulonimbus
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cloud
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 cumulus
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cloud
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 deceleration
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 decomposer
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 delta
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 deposition
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 desert
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 drag
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 ecosystem
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 elevation
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 endangered
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species
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 energy
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 equator
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 erosion
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 evaporation
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 extinction
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 flood
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plain
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 food
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chain
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 food
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web
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 force
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 friction
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 fulcrum
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 gravity
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 habitat
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 herbivore
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 humidity
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 inclined
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plane
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 inertia
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 jet
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 land
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breeze
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 levee
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 lever
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 mass
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 meanders
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 mining
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 momentum
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 mountain
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breeze
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 mutualism
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 niche
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 nonrenewable
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resource
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 North
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 omnivore
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 parasitism
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 pesticides
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 plateau
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 pollution
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 population
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 prairie
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 precipitation
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 predator
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 prevailing
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 prey
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 producer
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 pulley
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 rain
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guage
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 rainforest
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 reaction
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 recycling
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 relief
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 renewable
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resource
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 run-off
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 scavenger
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 screw
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 sea
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breeze
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 sediment
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 simple
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 slope
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 soil
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composition
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 South
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 speed
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 stratus
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cloud
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 symbiosis
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 temperature
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 threatened
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species
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 topographical
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 trade
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winds
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 tributaries
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 tundra
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 unbalanced
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force
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 urban
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growth
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 valley
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breeze
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 valley
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 velocity
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 warm
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front
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 water
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bodies
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 water
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vapor
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 wedge
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 weight
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 wheel
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and axle
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 wind
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