Life Science Vocabulary Review 1

consumers that eat only other consumers

• Carnivore

• Omnivore

• Herbivore

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the struggle between two organisms for the same resources in their environment

• ecosystem

• extinct

• competition

organisms in a food web that get energy from eating other organisms

• producers

• consumers

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

an organism that gets

energy by breaking down dead organisms and waste into nutrients that are then

available for plants

• Decomposers

• consumers

• producers

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

a system that is made up of all of the living and nonliving things that interact in a certain area

• food web

• ecosystem

• food chain

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

the surroundings that an organism lives in

• food web

• economy

• environment

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

the transfer of energy from one organism to another in an ecosystem

• Food Chain

• Food Web

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

overlapping food chains that show the different paths of energy in an ecosystem

• Food Chain

• Food Web

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

the place in the environment where an organism lives throughout the year

• pad

• habitat

• ecosystem

consumers that eat only plants

• herbivore

• consumer

• producer

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2