Env. Sys. Ch 5 Sec 1 & 2 Vocab Review

an organism that creates its own food, typically through photosynthesis using sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide

• decomposer

• consumer

• trophic level

• producer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

a diagram that shows the feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem

• food chain

• trophic level

• energy pyramid

• food web

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

the process by which plants, algae, and some bacteria use sunlight, carbon dioxide, and water to produce carbohydrates and oxygen

• cellular respiration

• carbon cyle

• photosynthesis

• nitrogen cycle

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

an organism that cannot produce its own food and must eat other organisms—plants or animals—to get energy

• decomposer

• consumer

• producer

• food chain

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

one of the steps in a food chain or food pyramid; examples include producers and primary, secondary, and tertiary consumers

• energy pyramid

• food chain

• trophic level

• food web

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.8.7

an organism that feed by breaking down organic matter from dead organisms

• consumer

• food web

• producer

• decomposer

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

the process by which cells produce energy from carbohydrates; atmospheric oxygen combines with glucose to form water and carbon dioxide

• cellular respiration

• carbon cycle

• photosynthesis

• phosphorus cycle

the pathway of energy transfer through various stages as a result of the feeding patterns of a series of organisms

• trophic level

• food chain

• food web

• energy pyramid

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

 the movement of carbon from the nonliving environment into living things and back

• phosphorus cycle

• nitrogen cycle

• water cycle

• carbon cycle

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

 the process in which nitrogen circulates among the air, soil, water, plants, and animals in an ecosystem

• carbon cycle

• nitrogen cycle

• nitrogen-fixing bacteria

• phosphorus cycle

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3