Unit 7 Ecosystem Vocabulary

A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.

• ecosystem

• biotic

• abiotic

• food web

living things

• biotic

• ecosystem

• abiotic

• food web

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NGSS.MS-LS1-1

Non-living things

• abiotic

• ecosystem

• biotic

• food web

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

shows the feeding relationships of organisms in an ecosystem

• food web

• biotic

• abiotic

• food pyramid

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A graphical representation of the energy found within the trophic levels of an ecosystem

• food pyramid

• biotic

• abiotic

• food web

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A series of steps in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten

• food chain

• biotic

• abiotic

• food web

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

any necessity of life, such as water, nutrients, light, food, or space

• resource

• ecosystem

• biotic

• abiotic

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

An organism that can make its own food.

• producer / autotroph

• ecosystem

• biotic

• consumer / heterotroph

An organism that eats other organisms.

• consumer / heterotroph

• biotic

• producer / autotroph

• food web

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

A relationship between two species in which both species benefit

• mutualism

• commensalism

• parasitism

• ecosystem