Unit 9 (TEK 4.9A; 9B) Vocabulary

To rely on someone or something else

• consumer

• food chain

• dependent

• decomposer

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

• consumer

• producer

• decomposer

• habitat

What is an ecosystem?

• the living and nonliving components of an area

• an organism that feeds on another organism to get its energy

• process by which producers obtain their own energy from sunlight

• an organism that makes its own food

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

• consumer

• decomposer

• producer

• dependent

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

• food chain

• food web

• producers in community

• consumer and producers

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

the place where an organism lives; they supply the organism with food, shelter, moisture, and temperature to survive

• food web

• ecosystem

• food chain

• habitat

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

• food chain

• food web

• consumer

• dependent

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

an organism that makes its own food

• consumer

• decomposer

• producer

• dependent

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

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

• photosynthesis

• producers

• consumers

• photograph

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

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

• overpopulation

• overdependent

• food chain

• food web

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4