# 2 - MCAS Biology Vocabulary for English learners

native

• was always in one place

• comes from a different place

nonnative

• comes from the same place where it is now

• comes from a different place then where it is now

stable

• it stays the same

• it changes and disappears

unstable

• it stays the same

• it falls apart

diet

• what something eats

• rocks

ecosystem

• the place where an organism lives

• DNA

area

• place

• atmosphere

compete

• fight for the same thing

• share

resource

• what organisms need

• trash

balance

• when things change

• when things stay the same and equal