Ecosystem Vocabulary Test

1. any organism that cannot make its own food and must eat other organisms

• Producer

• Consumer

• Decomposer

• Scavenger

2. any organism that make its own food from abiotic sources (autotroph)

• Producer

• Consumer

• Decomposer

• Scavenger

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

3. animals feeding on decaying animal or plant matter

• Producer

• Consumer

• Decomposer

• Scavenger

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

4. any organism that gains it nutrients from breaking down dead matter.

• Producer

• Consumer

• Decomposer

• Scavenger

5. all the living and nonliving things that interact. A community of organisms surrounded by a physical environment.

• abiotic

• biotic

• biome

• ecosystem

6. any living component of an ecosystem that may affect an organism.

• abiotic

• biotic

• biome

• ecosystem

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

7. a large community of organisms living in a specific type of habitat (grassland, desert, tundra, etc.)

• abiotic

• biotic

• biome

• ecosystem

8. any nonliving component of an ecosystem that may affect an organism.

• abiotic

• biotic

• biome

• ecosystem

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

9. an interaction between two species in which both benefit.

• parasitism

• commensalism

• mutualism

• symbiosis

10. a relationship between two species in which one species is harmed while the other benefits.

• parasitism

• commensalism

• mutualism

• symbiosis