Amplify Ecosystems

A rabbit is eating leafy plants on a sunny day. What is happening to the carbon in the plants and the rabbit?

• Carbon is only moving out of the living things; it is not moving into them.

• With this information, there is no way to know for sure.

• Carbon is moving into and out of the living things at the same time.

• Carbon is only moving into the living things; it is not moving out of them.

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Matter that make up the nonliving parts of an ecosystem, such as air and water

• abiotic

• biotic

• composer

• energy storage molecules

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Matter that makes up the living and dead organisms in an ecosystem.

• abiotic

• mitosis

• biotic

• photosynthesis

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

All the living and nonliving things interacting in a particular area.

• biodome

• biosphere

• ecosystem

• space

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

An organism that needs to eat in order to get energy storage molecules.

• producer

• consumer

• decomposer

• dead matter

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

a community of organisms together with its environment

• ecosystem

• biosphere

• evidence

• matter

a diagram that shows what eats what in an ecosystem

• spider web

• food web

• network

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

In a food web, the ORIGINAL source of energy comes from the ______.

• grass

• animals

• sun

• water

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

What is an ecologist?

• A community of organisms together with its environment

• a diagram that shows what eats what in an ecosystem

• something scientists make to answer questions

• a scientist who studies ecosystems

WHat is an ecosystem?

• A scientist who studies ecosystems

• A community of organisms together with its environment

• the ability to make things move or change

• a living thing, such a a plant or animal