Interdependency Vocabulary 5.9 A,B,C

The space, conditions, and all the living and nonliving thingsaround an organism.

• oxygen

• environment

• population

• predator

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Direct effect or change.

• impact

• overpopulation

• organism

• symbiosis

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

All of the interacting members of the same species in an area.

• food chain

• food web

• organism

• population

An increase in the number of individuals of a given species over what its ecosystem can sustain, often with both direct and indirect effects on other organisms in the ecosystem.

• ecosystem

• predator

• food chain

• overpopulation

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

A path of energy transfer from one organism to another.

• food chain

• ecosystem

• food web

• consumer

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

An interconnected set of food chains.

• food chain

• food web

• ecosystem

• consumer

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

An organism that hunts and feeds on another organism

• onmivore

• prey

• predator

• herbovore

An animal that is hunted as food.

• predator

• omnivore

• herbivore

• prey

All of the living and non-living things and all of their interactions in an area.

• ecosystem

• food web

• population

• organism

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Characterized by having a metabolism and the ability tomaintain life processes.

• ecosystem

• nonliving

• living

• herbivore

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NGSS.MS-LS1-1