Unit 4 Vocabulary Words

What is the definition for environment?

• All the living and nonliving things that surround and affect an organism.

• A community of organisms and the physical environment in which they live.

• The place where an organism lives and can find everything it needs to survive.

• All the organisms of the same kind that live together in an ecosystem.

What is the definition for ecosystem?

• All the living and nonliving things that surround and affect an organism.

• A community of organisms and the physical environment in which they live.

• The place where an organism lives and can find everything it needs to survive.

• All the organisms of the same kind that live together in an ecosystem.

What is the definition for habitat?

• All the living and nonliving things that surround and affect an organism.

• A community of organisms and the physical environment in which they live.

• The place where an organism lives and can find everything it needs to survive.

• All the organisms of the same kind that live together in an ecosystem.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

What is the definition for habitat?

• All the living and nonliving things that surround and affect an organism.

• A community of organisms and the physical environment in which they live.

• The place where an organism lives and can find everything it needs to survive.

• All the organisms of the same kind that live together in an ecosystem.

What is the definition for community?

• All the populations of organisms that live and interact in an area.

• A living thing, such as a plant, that can make its own food.

• A living thing that cannot make its own food and must eat other living things.

• The process in which plants use energy from the sun to change carbon dioxide and water into sugar and oxygen.

What is the definition for producer?

• All the populations of organisms that live and interact in an area.

• A living thing, such as a plant, that can make its own food.

• A living thing that cannot make its own food and must eat other living things.

• The process in which plants use energy from the sun to change carbon dioxide and water into sugar and oxygen.

What is the definition for consumer?

• All the populations of organisms that live and interact in an area.

• A living thing, such as a plant, that can make its own food.

• A living thing that cannot make its own food and must eat other living things.

• The process in which plants use energy from the sun to change carbon dioxide and water into sugar and oxygen.

What is the definition for photosynthesis?

• All the populations of organisms that live and interact in an area.

• A living thing, such as a plant, that can make its own food.

• A living thing that cannot make its own food and must eat other living things.

• The process in which plants use energy from the sun to change carbon dioxide and water into sugar and oxygen.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

What is the definition for food chain?

• A series of organisms that depend on one another for food.

• A living thing that gets energy by breaking down dead organisms and animal wastes.

• the process of moving weathered rock and soil from one place to another.

• a large amount of water that covers normally dry land.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What is the definition for decomposer?

• A series of organisms that depend on one another for food.

• A living thing that gets energy by breaking down dead organisms and animal wastes.

• the process of moving weathered rock and soil from one place to another.

• a large amount of water that covers normally dry land.

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3