Interdependency Vocabulary

An organism that uses sunlight to make its own food for energy.

• consumer

• producer

• carnivore

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

An organism that gets energy from eating other organisms.

• consumer

• producer

• herbivore

An animal that gets its energy by eating only animals.

• omnivore

• herbivore

• carnivore

An animal that gets its energy by eating only plants.

• herbivore

• carnivore

• omnivore

An animal that gets its energy by eating both plants and other animals.

• carnivore

• omnivore

• herbivore

An organism that gets energy from eating dead organisms, nonliving materials or waste.

• producer

• consumer

• decomposer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Community of living and nonliving things.

• organism

• ecosystem

• living element

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Plant or animal who needs energy and must meet basic needs in order to survive.

• ecosystem

• nonliving element

• living element

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Part of an ecosystem like water, soil, air, sunlight, sediments, and rocks.

• nonliving element

• living element

• organism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A living thing.

• ecosystem

• nonliving element

• organism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

NGSS.MS-LS1-3