Vocabulary Natural Resources

The unplanned spread of cities into rural or suburban areas. This brings with it congestion and problems associated with more traffic and people.

• Suburbanization

• Urban sprawl

• Invasive species

• Air pollution

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

The establishment of residential communities on the outskirts of a community. People live in these communities and often work in the cities they surround.

• Suburbanization

• Desertification

• Eutrophication

• Recycle

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Living things in an ecosystem.

• Acid rain

• Nonnative species

• Biotic

• Ecosystem

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Non-living things in an ecosystem.

• Biotic

• Recycle

• Renewable resources

• Abiotic

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A biological community of interacting organisms and their environment.

• Biotic

• Ecosystem

• Native species

• Conservation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

The process by which the value of an ecosystem is reduced due to human caused destruction of land.

• Sustainability

• Eutrophication

• Desertification

• Land degradation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

A species that has made its way to an environment on its own, not introduced by humans.

• Invasive species

• Native species

• Biotic

• Abiotic

A species living outside of its native distribution.

• Non native species

• Air pollution

• Nonrenewable resources

• Abiotic

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

A species that is non native and likely causes harm to the environment it has entered.

• Recycle

• Abiotic

• Acid rain

• Invasive species

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Areas of typically dry land which lose their sources of water. It is usually caused by changes in climate or human activities.

• Desertification

• Deforestation

• Conservation

• Urban sprawl

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4