Unit 1 | Living Systems Vocabulary

System

• A pattern, plan, representation, or description designed to show a structure

• Information from one step of a cycle that acts to change behavior of a previous step of a cycle

• A Set of interacting components that work together

• Includes all of the nonliving and living things in a given area

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Feedback

• A pattern, plan, representation, or description designed to show a structure

• A property that a system has but that its component parts do not have

• Living things, such as plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria

• Information from one step of a cycle that acts to change the behavior of a previous step of a cycle

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Model

• A set of interacting components that work together

• A pattern, plan, representation, or description designed to show a structure

• Includes all of the nonliving and living things in a given area

• A property that a system has but that its component parts do not have

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Emergent Property

• A property that a system has but that its component parts do not have

• A set of interacting components that work together

• A pattern, plan, representation, or description designed to show a structure

• Information from one step of a cycle that acts to change the behavior of a previous step of a cycle

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

In a given area, this includes all of the nonliving and living things.

• Biotic Factors

• Ecosystem

• Abiotic Factors

• Organisms

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

What are the nonliving factors in an ecosystem called? (Examples include: moisture, temperature, wind, sunlight, soil, and minerals)

• Models

• Systems

• Biotic Factors

• Abiotic Factors

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Living things, such as plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria

• Biotic Factors

• Models

• Ecosystems

• Abiotic Factors

What is the process by which cells become specialized in structure and function?

• Cell Cycle

• Cell Differentiation

• Cell Growth

• Cell Membrane

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-4

What is the storehouse for most of the genetic information, or DNA, in your cells?

• Chloroplast

• Mitochondira

• Ribosome

• Nucleus

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

NGSS.MS-LS3-1

A group of tissues that carry out a specialized function of the body is considered a(n)...

• Cell

• Tissue

• Organ

• Organ System