Vocabulary Changes in Ecosystems

The living and non-liivng things that interact in an environment.

• Living/Non-living cycle

• Food Web

• Ecosystem

• Organism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

An organism that hunts and feeds on another organism

• Food Chain

• Ecosystem

• Organism

• Predator

A direct effect or change

• Create

• Impact

• Change

• Benefit

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

Overcrowding of a population, loss of natural resources

• Overpopulation

• Benefit

• Ecosurplus

• Vegetation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

An animal that feeds on growing plant life.

• Carnivore

• Grazer

• Omnivore

• Decomposer

An animal that is hunted as food

• Organism

• Prey

• Predator

• Vegetation

All the living things that belong in the same group and living together.

• Population

• Organisms

• Vegetation

• Carrying Capacity

All the plant life in an ecosystem.

• Impact

• Overpopulation

• Grazers

• Vegetation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

An advantage gained from something - Good effect

• Benefit

• Carrying Capacity

• Organism

• Impact

The function or part of an organism plays in its ecosystem; niche.

• Role

• Organism

• Conjunction

• Roller