Science STAAR Vocabulary Review Category 4

any living thing

• population

• organism

• habitat

• food web

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

an organism that is able to make its own food through the process of photosynthesis

• producer

• consumer

• predator

• prey

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

an organism that gets its energy from eating other organisms

• producer

• consumer

• decomposer

• prey

an organism that hunts and kills another organism for food

• producer

• predator

• prey

• decomposer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

an organism that is hunted and eaten by a predator

• producer

• predator

• prey

• decomposer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

an organism that breaks down dead organisms and waste

• producer

• consumer

• decomposer

• predator

the process in which dead organisms are broken down and returned to the soil

• adaptation

• migration

• hibernation

• decomposition

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

shows the path of energy from one organism to another

• producer

• food chain

• food web

• ecosystem

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

many overlapping food chains linked together

• food chain

• food web

• ecosystem

• environment

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

the environment where an organism lives; its "home"

• environment

• habitat

• community

• population