7.5 Ecosystem Dynamics Vocabulary

plantation

• Farms specializing in one type of cash crop

• Where Mrs. Kaup lives.

• A diversified farm growing many types of crops

• A town in Maine

palm oil

• A vegetable oil that comes from the fruit of the oil palm trees

• A type of palm tree

• A type of oil that comes from the palm of your hands

• The oil used in churches on Palm Sunday

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

oil palm

• A type of palm tree

• A vegetable oil that comes from the fruit of the palm tree

• The oil that makes your palm feel sweaty

• What is done to palm branches

land-use change

• People changing how land is used from one purpose to another

• The amount of money you get from using land

• Land that is used for the same thing forever

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

ecosystem

• A system that environments and their organisms form through their interactions

• A system in environments that prevent organisms from interacting

• A simple system that does not work together

criteria

• A standard by which something may be judged or decided

• The wrongful decision of something

Tags

NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

NGSS.MS-ETS1-2

constraints

• A limitation or restriction

• The total freedom of choice

• Discouragement from choice

Tags

NGSS.MS-ETS1-1

NGSS.MS-ETS1-2

population

• Group of the same kind of organism in an area

• Variety of different organisms in an area

• All the biotic factors in an area

• All the abiotic factors in an area

independent variable

• The part of the experiment that is changed to produce results

• The part of the experiment that is not changed to produce results

• The part of the experiment that stays the same

• The part of the experiment that changes multiple times

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-2

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

dependent variable

• The part of the experiment that changes to show results of the test

• The part of the experiment that stays the same

• The part of the experiment that limits the number of trials possible

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS2-2