Living Systems Vocabulary Review

An organism that breaks  down dead plant and animal material 

• decomposer

• food chain

• producer

• consumer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

An organism that makes its  own food 

• consumer

• decomposer

• producer

• food chain

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A community of organisms interacting with one another and with nonliving factors in an area

• sun

• food chain

• food web

• ecosystem

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

A process used by producers to make their own food 

• photosynthesis

• ecosystem

• biosphere

• food web

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

The main source of energy for all organisms in an ecosystem

• producer

• consumer

• sun

• food chain

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Organism that eats other organisms 

• biosphere

• producer

• food chain

• consumer

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Earth's rocks, minerals, and land-forms 

• geosphere

• hydrosphere

• biosphere

• atmosphere

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS2-3

The layer of gases surrounding Earth 

• hydrosphere

• atmosphere

• biosphere

• geosphere

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Water on Earth in the rivers, lakes, seas, groundwater, ocean, and atmosphere 

• geosphere

• atmosphere

• biosphere

• hydrosphere

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

All of the plants, animals, and other living things in the water, on the land, and in the air 

• geosphere

• atmosphere

• biosphere

• hydrosphere

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4