Living Environment Regents Review: Vocab #6

Match the following terms and definitions:

• study of organisms and the environment

• Competition

• What a role an organism has

• Ecology

• struggling for limited resouces

• Niche

• Where and organsim lives

• Habitat

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Match the following terms and definitions:

• makes its own food; does photosynthesis

• Heterotroph

• Eats other organisms to get nutrients

• Niche

• Heterotroph

• Producer

• Role that organism has in environment

• Consumer

• Autotroph

• Autotroph

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Ecology

Match the following terms with their definition;

• non-living

• Abiotic

• all the populations in an area

• Biotic

• the living & non-living in the same area

• community

• living

• ecosystem

• group of the same species

• population

Tags

Ecology

Order from smallest level of organization to largest

• Ecosystem - living populations + the non-living materials (water, sunlight, gases, temp., etc.)

• Community - squirrels, oak trees, beetles, deer, slugs, etc. in an area

• Population - all the gray squirrels in an area

• Individual - one gray squirrel

• Biosphere - all livable areas of the earth

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Ecology

Match the following with their definitions

• limits the size of a population

• Dynamic Equilibrium

• Carrying capacity is 2000 individuals

• Limiting factors

• keeping a balance

• Overpopulation

• # of individuals an area can support

• Carrying Capacity

• Pop. size goes above carrying capacity

• 

Tags

Ecology, Carrying Capacity

Match the following

• Food Web

• Food Web

• Many paths; energy moves thru organisms

• Energy pyramid

• 1 path; energy moves thru organisms

• 
• Energy pyramid

• Food chain

• Shows energy is lost at each level

• 

Tags

Ecology

Energy flow

Label each level of the energy pyramid with the appropriate organism

a

b

c

d

Snake

Frog

Grasshopper

Grass

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Drag the terms to the appropriate spot

a

b

Pioneer species

Climax species

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4