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Title:	Recycling 403
Description:	These are words that will be used in science for during September 2001.
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Author:	angiesimmons18
Created:	2001-09-08
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- 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