Develop a Model to Describe the Cycling of Matter and the Flow of Energy Among Abiotic and Biotic Components of an Ecosy

All energy in an ecosystem comes from the sun. This energy is passed through the ecosystem as organisms eat other organsims.

• Ominvores

• Herbivores

• Detritivores

• Flow of energy

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Animal that gets its energy and nutrition from eating plants.

• Parasite

• Herbivore

• Carnivore

• Ominvore

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Animal that gets its energy and nutrition from eating meat.

• Detritivore

• Ominvore

• Carnivore

• Herbivore

Organisms that produce their own food mostly through photosynthesis (producers). Examples are plants and algae.

• Ominvore

• Detritivore

• Heterotroph

• Autotroph

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Organisms that get their energy and nutrition from other organisms (consumers).

• Heterotroph

• Autotroph

• Decomposer

• Detritivore

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Heterotrophs that get energy and nutrition from dead or decaying organisms or their waste products and recycle nutrients back to the ecosystem.

• Producer

• Trophic

• Decomposer

• Autotrooph

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Heterotrophs that “clean up” the ecosystem by eating dead and decaying organisms.

• Autotrophs

• Herbivores

• Ominvores

• Detritivores

The level in an Ecological pyramid that includes all the organisms that share the same place in a food chain.

• Trophic Levels

• Toxic Levels

• KeKe Levels

• Environmental Systems

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Autotrophs--The bottom trophic level where all organisms produce their own food, usually by photosynthesis.

• Trophic Levels

• Producers

• Ominvores

• Herbivores

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Herbivores--The second trophic level where herbivores eat the primary producers.

• Detritivores

• Autotrophs

• Producers

• Primary Consumers

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2