Ecology Unit

Any nonliving factor in an organism's environment, such as soil, water temperature, and light availability

• Biotic Factor

• Abiotic Factor

• Symbiosis

• Predator

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Organism that captures energy from sunlight or inorganic substances to produce its own food; provides the foundation of the food supply for other organisms; also called a producer

• Autotroph

• Heterotroph

• Consumer

• Carnivore

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Exchange of matter through the biosphere involving living organisms, chemical processes, and geological processes

• Biological Community

• Ecosystem

• Ecology

• Biogeochemical Cycle

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Exchange of matter through the biosphere involving living organisms, chemical processes, and geological processes

• Biomass

• Biological Community

• Biome

• Ecosystem

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Total mass of living matter at each trophic level

• Biome

• Biology

• Biomass

• Matter

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Large group of ecosystems that share the same climate and have similar types of communities

• Biome

• Biomass

• Ecosystem

• Community

Relatively thin layer of Earth and its atmosphere that supports life

• Atmosphere

• Lithosphere

• Hemisphere

• Biosphere

Any living factor in an organism's environment

• Ecology

• Biotic Factor

• Community

• Abiotic Factor

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Heterotroph that preys on other heterotrophs

• Herbivore

• Carnivore

• Producer

• Omnivore

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed

• Competition

• Parasitism

• Mutualism

• Commensalism