Unit 9 Vocabulary(Interdependence)

Each step in a food chain or food web, arranged in a pyramid

• food chain

• food web

• trophic level

a web made of food chains where there are multiple paths energy can take.

• food chain

• food web

• trophic level

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

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

• food chain

• food web

• trophic level

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

An organism that can make its own food. (plants)

• Producer

• Consumer

• Abiotic

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

An organism that eats other organisms

• Producer

• Consumer

• Abiotic

Non-living

• Producer

• Consumer

• Abiotic

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A consumer that eats only animals

• Omnivore

• Carnivore

• Herbivore

An animal that eats both plants and animals

• Omnivore

• Carnivore

• Herbivore

An animal that eats both plants and animals

• Omnivore

• Carnivore

• Herbivore

An organism that cannot make its own food. (consumers)

• Heterotroph

• Autotroph

• Ecosystem