Ecosystems

group of organisms that share common characteristics

• species

• aquarium

• ecosystem

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

all the living and nonliving things in an area and their interactions

• community

• habitat

• ecosystem

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

organism that makes its own food for energy

• consumer

• producer

• decomposer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

a series of steps by which energy moves from one type of living thing to another

• food chain

• food web

• flow of energy

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

all conditions surrounding an organism

• biome

• habitat

• environment

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

organism that cannot make its own food

• consumer

• decomposer

• producer

organism that gets its energy by breaking down wastes and dead organisms

• producer

• consumer

• decomposer

a diagram that combines many food chains into one picture

• food chain

• flow of energy

• food web

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

all living things in an ecosystem

• abiotic

• biotic

• nonliving

all nonliving things in an ecosystem

• abiotic

• living

• biotic

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3