Ecosystem Vocabulary

a group of species that are commonly found together

• Community

• Organism

• Species

• Population

a living thing that has an organized structure, can react to stimuli, reproduce, grow, adapt, and maintain homeostasis

• Organism

• Population

• Community

• Ecosystem

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

an area classified according to the species that live in that location

• Ecosystem

• Biome

• Community

• Population

a geographic area where plants, animals, and other organisms, as well as weather and landscape, work together to form a bubble of life

• Populatino

• Community

• Organism

• Ecosystem

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

a group of individuals of the same species living and interbreeding within a given area

• Organism

• Community

• Population

• Producer

a non-living part of an ecosystem

• Abiotic

• Biotic

• Biodiversity

• Biome

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

living things within an ecosystem

• Abiotic

• Biotic

• Biodiversity

• Biome

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

an organism that eats plants and animals

• Herbivore

• Carnivore

• Omnivore

• Detritivore

an organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals

• Producer/Autotroph

• Consumer/Heterotroph

• Carnivore

• Omnivore

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

organism that mostly feeds on plants

• Herbivore

• Carnivore

• Omnivore

• Detritivore

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3