First Nine Weeks Vocabulary Review

Match the following

• omnivore

• any organism that eats both plants and animals

• abiotic

• any organism that consumes only plants

• decomposer

• all the non-living factors in an ecosystem; water, air, light, shelter, temperature, soil

• predator

• organism that hunts its food

• herbivore

• organisms that break down remains of dead plants and animals

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

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• sun

• provides the energy needed on Earth to drive convection

• high pressure system

• plant-like form of life in water that performs photosynthesis; basis of food webs in water

• wind

• convection caused by uneven heating of the Earth's atmosphere, causing the air to move

• phytoplankton

• human-made,underwater structures that help marine life

• artificial reefs

• associated with cooler air sinking, winds going in a clockwise rotation, and clear, sunny skies

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

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• natural selection

• In a body of water, an area with extremely low oxygen concentration and very little life

• dead zone

• process used by plants to produce food

• short-term environmental change

• A model that uses levels instead of arrows to show the flow of energy in an ecosystem

• photosynthesis

• Doesn't give populations time to adapt to the environmental change and forces them to move or become extinct; droughts, floods, fire

• energy pyramid

• Populations gradually change over time when a favorable trait is passed on more frequently than a similar but less favorable trait

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Match the following

• unequal

• sinks because it is more dense

• coral bleaching

• causes substance to sink

• carbon dioxide

• Occurs when a coral becomes stressed and expels most of its colorful algae, leaving an underlying ghostly white skeleton of calcium carbonate

• more dense

• The gas used for photosynthesis.

• cold air

• not the same

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Match the following

• hurricane

• Where Earth gains the least amount of heat.

• condensation

• The weight of air molecules pushing down on Earth

• North and South Poles

• A tropical storm caused by warm water, that has winds of about 74 miles per hour or higher.

• precipitation

• change from gas to liquid

• air pressure

• rain, snow, sleet, hail

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Match the following

• producer

• any organism that eats only meat

• competition

• organism that is hunted for food

• biotic

• An organism that makes its own food

• prey

• living and once living factors in an ecosystem

• carnivore

• when more than one individual or population tries to use the same limited resource

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Match the following

• low pressure system

• convection caused by uneven heating of the Earths oceans, causing the water to move

• consumer

• An organism that gets energy by eating other organisms

• ocean currents

• associated with warmer air rising, winds going counterclockwise, and cloudy, humid conditions

• zooplankton

• process in which a warm, less dense substance rises, and a cooler, more dense substance sinks

• convection

• animal-like form of life in water that is basis of food web

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Match the following

• ocean acidification

• More gradual environmental change allowing populations the opportunity to adapt; climate change, deforestation

• adaptations

• Structures or behaviors in organisms that help them survive in their environment

• long-term environmental change

• diagram that shows the relationships between organisms in ecosystem

• food web

• when CO₂ dissolves in seawater, it reacts with water to form carbonic acid, which lowers ocean pH

• Gulf Stream Current

• a warm Atlantic Ocean current

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

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  less dense

• rises because it is less dense

• warm air

• A thin layer of gases surrounding Earth

• oxygen

• causes substance to rise

• atmosphere

• A cool Pacific Ocean current

• California Current

• The gas released from photosynthesis

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Match the following

• evaporation

• capturing fish faster than they can reproduce

• Overfishing

• area on Earth that receives the greatest amount of solar heat

• coral reef

• change from liquid to gas

• equator

• The most diverse marine biome on Earth, found in warm, shallow waters beyond the shoreline.

• adapt, migrate, die

• How organisms can respond to a change in the environment

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-1