Interactions in Ecosystems

An organism that makes its own food

• ecosystem

• producer

• food chain

• consumer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

A unit consisting of living organisms and the environment that they live in

• decomposer

• food chain

• ecosystem

• overpopulation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

To rely on someone or something else

• decomposer

• consumers

• dependent

• overpopulation

Process by which producers / plants use the energy in sunlight to create their own food

• photosynthesis

• food chain

• producer

• food web

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

An organism that gets energy by feeding on dead materials and waste

• decomposer

• dependent

• producer

• consumer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A representation of the flow of energy from the Sun through producers to consumers and decomposers in an ecosystem

• food web

• food chain

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

an organism that eats other organisms (plants and/or animals) for food

• habitat

• dependent

• consumer

• producer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

the place where an organism lives; supply the organism with food, shelter, moisture, and temperature for survival

• food web

• ecosystem

• habitat

• photosynthesis

representation of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem; includes the flow of energy from the Sun through producers to consumers and decomposers through multiple pathways

• food web

• food chain

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

having too many people or organisms in a particular area, straining available resources and impacting the environment

• food web

• consumers

• habitat

• overpopulation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4