Ecosystem Vocabulary Review

a nonliving thing in an ecosystem (rocks, dirt, water, wind, rain, the sun)

• abiotic factor

• biotic factor

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

a living or once-living thing in an ecosystem (animals and plants)

• abiotic factor

• biotic factor

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

Water, in liquid or solid form, that falls from the atmosphere

• precipitation

• condensation

• evaporation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

The process during which water vapor changes into liquid water

• precipitation

• condensation

• evaporation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

The process of a liquid changing to a gas at the surface of the liquid

• precipitation

• condensation

• evaporation

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

A series of chemical reactions that convert light energy, water, and carbon dioxide into the food-energy molecule glucose and give off oxygen

• photosynthesis

• nitrogen fixation

• chemosynthesis

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

The process that changes atmospheric nitrogen into nitrogen compounds that are usable by living things

• photosynthesis

• nitrogen fixation

• chemosynthesis

the process during which producers use chemical energy in matter rather than light energy to make food

• photosynthesis

• nitrogen fixation

• chemosynthesis

the long-term average weather conditions that occur in a particular region

• climate

• atmosphere

• ecosystem

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

a thin layer of gases surrounding Earth (the air)

• climate

• atmosphere

• ecosystem