Ecosystem Vocabulary & Biotic/Abiotic Review

Living things within an ecosystem.

• Biotic Factors

• Limiting Factor

• Carry Capacity

• Abiotic Factors

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

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Chain showing how energy passes from one organism to the next.

• Food chain

• Food Web

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

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Eat producers or only eat plants.

• Producers

• Consumers

• Omnivores

• Herbivores

Non-living parts of ecosystem (air, water, soil, sun)

• Ecosytsem

• Abiotic Factors

• Biotic Factors

• Niche

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

All the living organisms that live in an area and the nonliving features of their environment.

• Habitat

• Niche

• Biomes

• Ecosystem

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Large geographic areas with similar climates and ecosystems. (Tundra, Desert, Grassland, etc)

• Niche

• Ecosystem

• Biomes

• Habitat

Shows the direction in which energy flows. As the amount of available energy decreases, the pyramid gets smaller. Each layer on a pyramid is called a trophic level.

• Food chain

• Food web

• Energy Pyramid

• Ecosystem

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Organism that makes its own food.

• Consumer

• Producer

• Herbivore

• Omnivore

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Organism that cannot make own food.

• Consumer

• Producer

• Herbivore

• Omnivore

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Consume wastes and dead organisms.

• Carnivore

• Omnivore

• Decomposer

• Producer

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3