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Title: Recycling 403
Description: These are words that will be used in science for during September 2001.
Number of Cards: 25
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Author: angiesimmons18
Created: 2001-09-08
Tags: middleschool
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    • Side 3
    • decomposition
    • rotting, disintegration
    • oxygen
    • a gas given off by plants that humans need in order to live
    • diversity
    • state of being different, variety,
    • hazardous
    • dangerous
    • nitrogen
    • a gas found in "greens" in the environment
    • resource
    • something that can be used
    • adaptations
    • a change to make an organism fit better in in its environment
    • ecosystem
    • the community of organisms within their environment
    • sanitary
    • clean
    • herbivore
    • someone or something that eats only plants
    • pollutants
    • things that make the environment unclean
    • recycle
    • to use again by breaking up, melting, cleaning, and then making something new
    • compost
    • a mixture of various decaying substances, such as dead leaves, food scraps, etc.
    • reduce
    • to decrease in size
    • endangered
    • threatened with extinction
    • biome
    • an area on earth wherein plants and animals have characteristics peculiar to that place and are not found naturally anywhere else on earth
    • nutrients
    • substances in food that our body needs
    • garbage
    • discarded materials
    • ecology
    • the study of the relationship between organisms and their environment
    • environment
    • your surroundings
    • habitat
    • where an organism lives
    • carnivore
    • someone or something that eats meat
    • behavior
    • how someone or something acts
    • omnivore
    • someone or something that eats plants and animals
    • biodegradable
    • able to break down, capable of decay