Ecosystems Investigations 2,3,&4 vocabulary

an area of land covered with a dense growth of trees and woody plant

• wetland

• forest

• ecosystem

• environment

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

a characteristic of an organism that allows it to survive more effectively in a particular environment.

• organism

• ecosystem

• adaptation

• environment

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

a situation that exists in nature when two or more different species require the same environmental resource such as food and shelter to survive.

• adaptation

• competition

• Extinct

• fossil

no longer living, describes a species that has completely died off.

• fossil

• extinct

• biomass

• adaptation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

the remains or impressions of plants and animals which lived on the Earth in the past and are now preserved in rocks.

• fossils

• extinct

• wetland

• forest

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

the process in nature by which organisms that are vest adapted to their environment tend to survive and reproduce while those less adapted tend to die off, also called "survival of the fittest".

• extinct

• fossil

• natural selection

• biomass

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NGSS.MS-LS3-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

a scientist who uses fossils to study organisms that lived in ancient times.

• Paleontologist

• Natural selection

• fossil

• adaptation

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NGSS.MS-LS4-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-2

addition of harmful particles and gases into the air.

• interdependence

• air pollution

• pollutant

• pollution

a term that describes how changes in one aspect of the environment can cause changes in another aspect of the environment; a relationship in which plants and animals depend on one another for survival.

• land pollution

• interdependence

• pollutant

• pollution

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

addition of harmful materials into the soil

• land pollution

• water pollution

• pollutant

• pollution