Life Science Vocabulary

All of the members of one species that live in the same area

• community

• population

• habitat

• producer

An organism that consumes other organisms for food

• niche

• consumer

• producer

• prey

All of the living and nonliving parts of an area

• habitat

• biotic

• ecosystem

• abiotic

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A plant eating animal

• decomposer

• scavenger

• carnivore

• herbivore

The path of energy and matter in a community

• photosynthesis

• predator

• food chain

• niche

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

An animal that is hunted and killed by another animal for food

• community

• prey

• predator

• biotic

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

The process by which plants use sunlight to make sugar from water and CO₂

• energy pyramid

• abiotic

• niche

• Photosynthesis

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

An animal that feeds on dead plants, animals or other materials

• producer

• scavenger

• herbivore

• predator

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

nonliving, devoid of life

• energy pyramid

• biotic

• niche

• abiotic

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

The role of a species in an ecosystem

• scavenger

• consumer

• habitat

• niche