Environment Vocabulary

Any living thing

• ecosystem

• organism

• environment

• environmental factor

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Everything that surrounds and influences an organism

• ecosystem

• organism

• environment

• environmental factor

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One part of the environment. It can be nonliving, such as water, light and temperature. It can be living, such as plants and animals.

• ecosystem

• organism

• environment

• environmental factor

The condition of being alive

• living

• nonliving

• compete

• optimum

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Referring to something that has never been alive or to things that were once alive and are no longer alive

• living

• nonliving

• compete

• optimum

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To grow fast and stay healthy

• living

• compete

• thrive

• optimum

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

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Most favorable to growth, development, and reproduction of an organism

• compete

• thrive

• optimum

• range of tolerance

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

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The varying conditions of one environmental factor in which an organism can survive

• range of tolerance

• optimum

• compete

• thrive

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a change to fit the environment

• compete

• adaptation

• range of tolerance

• thrive

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The actions of an animal in response to its environment

• structures

• behaviors

• larva

• pupa

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