Environment Vocabulary

What is an Ecosystem?

• A community of living and non-living things in their natural environment

• An area with too much water

• An area with too little water

What does it mean to thrive?

• To die

• To grow strong and reproduce

• It's a place where things live

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

What does it mean to perish?

• To live

• To die

• To have too much water

What does the word flood mean?

• To die

• A group of living things

• To have too much water

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

What does drought mean?

• To have too little water

• The populations that interact in one area

• To grow strong and reproduce

What is population?

• A group of living things that belong to the same group and live in the same area

• Too much water

• Not enough food

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

What is a community?

• A building

• Not enough water

• All the interacting populations in one area