Matter Cycles Vocabulary Homework

An organism that breaks down the remains of dead plants or animals without the need for internal digestion

• Decomposer

• Consumer

• Sun

• Producer

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

The space, conditions, and all living and nonliving things around an organism

• Producer

• Environment

• Consumer

• Home

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NGSS.MS-LS1-5

Actions by one thing that have an effect on a separate or different thing

• Sun

• Energy

• Interactions

• Force

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NGSS.MS-PS2-1

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS2-5

A very small life-form, especially a bacterium

• Producer

• Decomposer

• Consumer

• Microbe

A mixture of sand, silt, clay, rock, and humus (plant and animal remains)

• Soil

• Plants

• Bones

• Decomposer

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Any unused or rejected materials that are seen as worthless or unwanted

• Remains

• Produce

• Waste

• Decomposer

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A type of organism that can break down just about any type of organic material and is too small to see without tools

• Predator

• Prey

• Producer

• Bacteria

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

An organism that gets energy from eating plants or animals (or both)

• Producer

• Consumer

• Decomposer

• Sun

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

An interconnected set of food chains

• Consumers

• Environment

• Food Web

• Ecosystem

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A type of organism that can break down just about any type of organic matter and can be large, such as a mushroom, or small, such as tiny pieces of mold

• Consumer

• Fungus

• Bacteria

• Producer

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3