Environments and Communities

Living and nonliving things interacting in an environment

• Organism

• Change

• Scare

• Energy

• Ecosystem

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Rare, or having very little of something

• Organism

• Change

• Scare

• Energy

• Ecosystem

What is needed to do work or cause change

• Organism

• Change

• Scare

• Energy

• Ecosystem

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NGSS.MS-PS3-5

To cause something to be different than it was before

• Organism

• Change

• Scare

• Energy

• Ecosystem

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

A living thing

• Organism

• Change

• Scare

• Energy

• Ecosystem

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NGSS.MS-LS1-1

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

When a hurricane comes ashore, it brings large amounts of salt water with it. How might this affect the living things found in freshwater environments?

• Organisms that cannot live in salt water will not survive.

• Animals in this environment will begin to grow much larger.

• The number of organisms in the environment will increase.

• Plants that grow in salt water will begin to die out

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Which environmental change would be harmful to the survival of a robin?

• Prairie dogs digging tunnels in the ground

• Humans clearing forests to build houses

• Ants building large anthills in a schoolyard

• Beavers building a dam to create a pond

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Commercial fishing has decreased the number of bass that used to live in this ecosystem. Which statement below best predicts what will happen in the ecosystem?

• The number of insect larvae would increase.

• The number of snails would decrease

• The number of snapper turtles would decrease.

• The number of minnows would increase.

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4