Kessler Ecosystems

all of the living and nonliving things in a given area that exist and interact

• Biodiversity

• Ecological Succession

• Ecosystem

• Host

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

describes the nonliving things in an ecosystem

• Biotic

• Abiotic

• Predator

• Prey

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

an organism that derives its energy from the sun and is often a food source for other living organisms

• Consumer

• Producer

• Primary Consumer

• Herbivore

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

an organism that must get its energy from another organism

• Ecosystem

• Decomposer

• Producer

• Consumer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

describes the living things in an ecosystem

• Biodiversity

• Ecosystems

• Abiotic

• Biotic

Match the following

• a consumer that feeds on animals only

• producer

• an organism that can make its own food through photosynthesis

• consumer

• a consumer that feeds on plants and animals

• herbivore

• an organism that gains energy by feeding on other organisms

• omnivore

• a consumer that feeds on plants only

• carnivore

______________ shows the amount of energy moving from one feeding level to another

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

changes that occur in an area where NO ecosystem previously existed (a)  

• primary succession
• succession
• secondary succession
• natural disaster

Match the following

• a series of events in which one organism eats another to gain energy

• heterotroph

• a living part of an ecosystem

• abiotic

• a nonliving part of an ecosystem

• biotic

• another term for a producer

• autotroph

• another term for a consumer

• food chain

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Label the food chain

a

b

c

secondary consumer

primary consumer

producer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3