5.9 Vocabulary Quiz

All of the living and nonliving things and all of their interactions in an area.

• Ecosystem

• Organism

• Home

• Consumers

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Characterized by having a metabolism and the ability to maintain life processes.

• Abiotic

• Living

• Non-Living

• Producer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

A part of the ecosystem that is not living, such as sunlight, air, water, rocks and soil.

• Living

• Non-living

• Biotic

• Niche

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A single, self-contained living thing.

• Producer

• Abiotic

• Biotic

• Organism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

An organism that uses sunlight to make its own food for energy.

• Decomposer

• Producer

• Consumer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

An organism that gets energy by eating other organisms.

• Consumer

• Producer

• Decomposer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

An organism that consumes dead or nonliving biomass without need for internal digestion

• Decomposer

• Consumer

• Producer

An animal that gets energy by eating other animals.

• Producer

• Carnivore

• Omnivore

• Herbivore

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

An animal that gets energy by only eating plants.

• Decomposer

• Carnivore

• Herbivore

• Omnivore

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

An animal that gets energy by eating both plants and animals.

• Decomposer

• Carnivore

• Omnivore

• Herbivore