Biodiversity Unit Vocabulary 1

Is the abundance and variety of life on Earth.

• Biodiversity

• Abiotic

• Biotic

• Ecosystem Restoration

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Is the process of assisting the recovery of an ecosystem that has been degraded, damaged, or destroyed.

• Restoration Site

• Ecosystem Restoration

• Consumer

• Biodiversity

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Is a degraded, damaged, or destroyed ecosystem that restoration ecologists are working to restore.

• Ecosystem Restoration 

  
  

• Biotic

• Restoration Site

• Biodiversity 

  
  

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Anything that never was alive and never will be alive.

• Abiotic

• Biotic

• Symbiotic

Anything that is alive, was alive, or is part of something that was alive.

• Biotic

• Symbiotic

• Abiotic

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Organism that is able to make its own food from the energy of the sun

• Producer

• Consumer

• Decomposer

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Organism that cannot make its own food and relies on other organisms for food

• Producer

• Consumer

• Decomposer

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

A special kind of consumer that breaks down organic material into simpler parts for re-use.

• Consumer

• Producer

• Decomposer

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A plant that is a part of the balance of nature that has developed over hundreds or thousands of years in a particular region or ecosystem.

• Native Plant

• Non-Native Plant

• Invasive Plant

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

A plant introduced with human help (intentionally or accidentally) to a new region or ecosystem where it was not previously found.

• Native Plant

• Non-Native Plant

• Invasive Plant

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5