5th Grade Ecosystems Vocabulary

An organism that is eaten by another organism

• prey

• ecosystem

• carnivore

• habitat

A natural resource that is renewable and can be used more than once.

• producer

• recycle

• natural resource

• Reusable resources

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

making used or old material into new products to prevent waste.

• consumer

• recycle

• reusable resources

• estuary

A resource that cannot be replaced within a short period of time.

• resource

• organism

• recycle

• non-renewable resource

A material that occurs naturally within the environment.

• resource

• natural resource

• recycle

• reusable resource

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-3

A group of living things and their non-living environment.

• organism

• deforestation

• ecosystem

• niche

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

organism that produce their own food.

• producer

• niche

• carnivore

• herbivore

The circumstances or conditions that surround and organism.

• ecosystem

• environment

• biome

• abiotic

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Another word for ecosystem.

• environment

• community

• biome

• parasite

A substance that causes harm to the earth

• parasite

• pollutant

• niche

• abiotic

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4