Ecosystems and the Food Chain

An organism that gets energy from eating plants or animals

• consumer

• producer

• organism

• food chain

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

What is needed to do work or cause change

• consumer

• producer

• energy

• food chain

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-1

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

The path of food energy from one organism to another in an ecosystem

• consumer

• work

• energy

• food chain

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A single, self-contained, living thing

• organism

• work

• energy

• food chain

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

An organism that uses sunlight to make its own food for energy

• organism

• producer

• consumer

• food chain

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A community of living and nonliving things in their natural environment

• thrive

• ecosystem

• consumer

• food chain

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Grow strong or reproduce

• energy

• ecosystem

• thrive

• food chain

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-4

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Too much water in an area

• drought

• ecosystem

• thrive

• flood

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

Too little water in an area

• drought

• ecosystem

• thrive

• flood

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

All the living things that belong to the same group and live in the same area

• drought

• population

• thrive

• community