Ecosystems and the Environment Test Review

An inherited characteristic that increases an organism's ability to survive

• Biome

• Ecosystem

• Adaptation

• Ecology

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

All surroundings of a living organism, including natural forces and other living things.

• Ecology

• Environment

• Ecosystem

• Biome

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

All of the biotic and abiotic factors in an environment

• Ecology

• Environment

• Ecosystem

• Biome

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A series of changes in the species composition of a community over time.

• Biome

• Adaptation

• Ecology

• Ecological Succession

The study of how organisms interact with one another and their environment

• Ecology

• Environment

• Ecosystem

• Adaptation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Group of ecosystems that have similar climate and living organisms

• Biome

• Ecological Succession

• Ecosystem

• Environment

Home to more species than all other biomes combined; hot and wet year round; sloths, toucans, anacondas

• Temperate Foreset

• Tropical Rainforest

• Taiga (Boreal Forest)

Characterized by a cover of grasses; lions, leopards, cheetahs, hyenas, zebras, antelope, ostriches

• Temperate Grassland

• Desert

• Savanna

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Coldest biome on earth; moss, lichen; musk oxen, arctic foxes, caribou

• Tundra

• Taiga (Boreal Forest)

• Temperate Rainforest

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Contains a mixture of deciduous and coniferous trees; black bears, bobcats, raccoons, squirrels, skunks

• Temperate Grassland

• Temperate Forest

• Tropical Rainforest