Populations and Ecosystems Vocabulary

Organism

• A change in organisms to help them survive, but does not change the species of the organism.

• The place where living and nonliving things exist and interact.

• Anything non-living and has never been alive.

• Any living thing.

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Recessive Trait

• A characteristic of an organism that has a much higher chance of being passed from parents to their young.

• A characteristic of an organism that has a much lower chance of being passed from parents to their young.

• How and why traits are passed from parents to their young.

• The highest number of organisms that can exist in an ecosystem before becoming too many for the resources around.

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Ecosystem

• A change in organisms to help them survive, but does not change the species of the organism.

• The study of how and why populations of organisms shrink or grow.

• Energy moving from one source to another.

• The place where living and nonliving things exist and interact.

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Biotic

• Anything non-living and has never been alive.

• Anything that is alive, or was alive at some point.

• Certain characteristics of organisms that can be passed on from parents to their young.

• The study of how and why populations of organisms shrink or grow.

Adaptation

• The highest number of organisms that can exist in an ecosystem before becoming too many for the resources around.

• Stronger organisms survive but weaker organisms die out.

• A change in organisms to help them survive, which ends up with the organism becoming a new species.

• A change in organisms to help them survive, but does not change the species of the organism.

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

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Trait

• Certain characteristics of organisms that can be passed on from parents to their young.

• Energy moving from one source to another.

• The highest number of organisms that can exist in an ecosystem before becoming too many for the resources around.

• A change in organisms to help them survive, but does not change the species of the organism.

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Abiotic

• Stronger organisms survive but weaker organisms die out.

• Anything that is alive, or was alive at some point.

• Anything non-living and has never been alive.

• How and why traits are passed from parents to their young.

Evolution

• A change in organisms to help them survive, but does not change the species of the organism.

• The study of how and why populations of organisms shrink or grow.

• A characteristic of an organism that has a much higher chance of being passed from parents to their young.

• A change in organisms to help them survive, which ends up with the organism becoming a new species.

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Natural Selection

• A characteristic of an organism that has a much lower chance of being passed from parents to their young.

• Stronger organisms survive but weaker organisms die out.

• How and why traits are passed from parents to their young.

• The place where living and nonliving things exist and interact.

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NGSS.MS-LS4-4

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Population Dynamics

• The study of how and why populations of organisms shrink or grow.

• How and why traits are passed from parents to their young.

• Certain characteristics of organisms that can be passed on from parents to their young.

• Any living thing.

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

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