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      <title>Ecology Word Wall by Madison Hickman</title>
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      <description>Important vocabulary and definitions to add to your brain-bank</description>
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      <pubDate>2016-05-01 20:37:53 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>primary consumer</title>
         <author>hickmanm</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/hickmanm/xnr8g11vbld8/wish/108652987</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>animals that eat only producers. Synonymous with herbivore</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2016-05-01 20:40:35 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>primary producer</title>
         <author>hickmanm</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/hickmanm/xnr8g11vbld8/wish/108653000</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>organisms that make biomass from molecules through photosynthesis or chemosynthesis. Mostly plants&nbsp;</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2016-05-01 20:40:51 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>autotroph</title>
         <author>hickmanm</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/hickmanm/xnr8g11vbld8/wish/108653008</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>organisms that can make their own energy, such as plants.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2016-05-01 20:41:00 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>heterotroph</title>
         <author>hickmanm</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/hickmanm/xnr8g11vbld8/wish/108653013</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>animals that must eat plants or other animals for energy because they can't make their own</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2016-05-01 20:41:07 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>secondary consumer</title>
         <author>hickmanm</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/hickmanm/xnr8g11vbld8/wish/108653021</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>organisms that eat primary consumers. Examples: birds, foxes, snakes</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2016-05-01 20:41:15 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>tertiary consumer</title>
         <author>hickmanm</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/hickmanm/xnr8g11vbld8/wish/108653025</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>an animal that eats a secondary consumer. Examples: wolf, cougar, lion</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2016-05-01 20:41:19 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>decomposer</title>
         <author>hickmanm</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/hickmanm/xnr8g11vbld8/wish/108653053</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>organisms that break biomass down into molecules like nitrogen and oxygen</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2016-05-01 20:41:49 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>scavenger</title>
         <author>hickmanm</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/hickmanm/xnr8g11vbld8/wish/108653057</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>an animal the eats dead animals, plants, or animal waste</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2016-05-01 20:41:55 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>parasitism</title>
         <author>hickmanm</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/hickmanm/xnr8g11vbld8/wish/108653092</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>:) :(<br>a symbiotic relationship in which one species benefits while the other is harmed</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2016-05-01 20:42:33 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>commensalism</title>
         <author>hickmanm</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/hickmanm/xnr8g11vbld8/wish/108653103</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>:) :|<br>a symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other isn’t benefited or harmed</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2016-05-01 20:42:45 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>symbiotic relationship</title>
         <author>hickmanm</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/hickmanm/xnr8g11vbld8/wish/108653133</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>A close interaction between two species, usually to the&nbsp; benefit of one or both. Includes commensalism, parasitism, and mutualism</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2016-05-01 20:43:10 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>mutualism</title>
         <author>hickmanm</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/hickmanm/xnr8g11vbld8/wish/108653160</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>:) :)<br>a&nbsp; symbiotic relationship in which both species benifit</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2016-05-01 20:43:40 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>preditor/prey</title>
         <author>hickmanm</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/hickmanm/xnr8g11vbld8/wish/108653165</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>a relationship in which a predator hunts and eats another species as prey</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2016-05-01 20:43:47 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>competition</title>
         <author>hickmanm</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/hickmanm/xnr8g11vbld8/wish/108653176</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>when two species fight for the same resources, such as land, water, food, mates, or social status.&nbsp;</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2016-05-01 20:43:57 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>food web</title>
         <author>hickmanm</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/hickmanm/xnr8g11vbld8/wish/108653183</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>a system of food chains combined to show who eats what in an ecosystem</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2016-05-01 20:44:05 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>food chain</title>
         <author>hickmanm</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/hickmanm/xnr8g11vbld8/wish/108653193</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>a simple representation of who eats what in an ecosystem</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2016-05-01 20:44:13 UTC</pubDate>
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         <title>nitrification</title>
         <author>hickmanm</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/hickmanm/xnr8g11vbld8/wish/108653243</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>the process of bacteria putting nitrogen into a usable form for plants</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2016-05-01 20:45:10 UTC</pubDate>
         <guid>https://padlet.com/hickmanm/xnr8g11vbld8/wish/108653243</guid>
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         <title>biomass</title>
         <author>hickmanm</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/hickmanm/xnr8g11vbld8/wish/108653762</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>natural material that can be used for energy</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2016-05-01 20:55:13 UTC</pubDate>
         <guid>https://padlet.com/hickmanm/xnr8g11vbld8/wish/108653762</guid>
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         <title>herbavor </title>
         <author>hickmanm</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/hickmanm/xnr8g11vbld8/wish/108654114</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>organisms that eat only plants, and no meat</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2016-05-01 21:00:18 UTC</pubDate>
         <guid>https://padlet.com/hickmanm/xnr8g11vbld8/wish/108654114</guid>
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         <title>carnivore </title>
         <author>hickmanm</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/hickmanm/xnr8g11vbld8/wish/108654130</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>organisms that eat only meat&nbsp;</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2016-05-01 21:00:33 UTC</pubDate>
         <guid>https://padlet.com/hickmanm/xnr8g11vbld8/wish/108654130</guid>
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         <title>omnivore </title>
         <author>hickmanm</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/hickmanm/xnr8g11vbld8/wish/108654134</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>organisms that eat both plants and animals</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2016-05-01 21:00:41 UTC</pubDate>
         <guid>https://padlet.com/hickmanm/xnr8g11vbld8/wish/108654134</guid>
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         <title>Ecology</title>
         <author>hickmanm</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/hickmanm/xnr8g11vbld8/wish/108654304</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>the study of connections between living things</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2016-05-01 21:04:13 UTC</pubDate>
         <guid>https://padlet.com/hickmanm/xnr8g11vbld8/wish/108654304</guid>
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         <title>ecosystem</title>
         <author>hickmanm</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/hickmanm/xnr8g11vbld8/wish/108655624</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>all the living things that share an environment</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2016-05-01 21:31:02 UTC</pubDate>
         <guid>https://padlet.com/hickmanm/xnr8g11vbld8/wish/108655624</guid>
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         <title>trophic level</title>
         <author>hickmanm</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/hickmanm/xnr8g11vbld8/wish/108656417</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>the position a group of organisms with similar methods of getting energy hold in a food web.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2016-05-01 21:47:53 UTC</pubDate>
         <guid>https://padlet.com/hickmanm/xnr8g11vbld8/wish/108656417</guid>
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         <title>Succession</title>
         <author>hickmanm</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/hickmanm/xnr8g11vbld8/wish/110331028</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>the sequence of changes in an ecosystem that regenerate or create a biotic community.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2016-05-11 14:01:29 UTC</pubDate>
         <guid>https://padlet.com/hickmanm/xnr8g11vbld8/wish/110331028</guid>
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         <title>Carrying capacity</title>
         <author>hickmanm</author>
         <link>https://padlet.com/hickmanm/xnr8g11vbld8/wish/110332412</link>
         <description><![CDATA[<div>the maximum population size that the environment can sustain given the food, habitat, water, and other necessities available in the environment.</div>]]></description>
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         <pubDate>2016-05-11 14:05:56 UTC</pubDate>
         <guid>https://padlet.com/hickmanm/xnr8g11vbld8/wish/110332412</guid>
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