Traits and Food Webs

an organism that makes its own food

• producer

• consumer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

an organism that must get food from eating other organisms

• producer

• consumer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

the transfer of energy from the sun to producers and from producers to consumers

• producer

• food chain

• ecosystem

• decomposer

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

an organism that breaks down dead plants and animals

• producer

• decomposer

• ecosystem

• food web

all living and nonliving things and their interactions in an area

• ecosystem

• food chain

• food web

• decomposer

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

an interconnected set of food chains

• food web

• food chain

• ecosystem

• decomposer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What something is used for; it's purpose

• structure

• function

• inherited trait

• learned behavior

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NGSS.MS-LS1-2

characteristics that are passed down from parents to offspring

• inherited trait

• learned behavior

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NGSS.MS-LS3-2

behaviors that are acquired from experience or learned from parents

• inherited traits

• learned behaviors

when one organism looks like another more dangerous organism

• mimicry

• learned behavior

• offspring

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

NGSS.MS-LS4-4