3.3, 3.4, 3.5 Vocab

Sequence of organisms in which each organism is a source of nutrients or energy for the next level of organisms.

• food chain

• food web

• NPP

  net primary productivity

• GPP

  gross primary productivity

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Complex network of interconnected food chains.

• food chain

• food web

• NPP

  net primary productivity

• GPP

  gross primary productivity

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Rate at which producers use photosynthesis to produce and store chemical energy minus the rate at which they use some of this stored chemical energy through cellular respiration.

• food chain

• food web

• NPP

  net primary productivity

• GPP

  gross primary productivity

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Rate at which an ecosystem’s producers convert radiant energy into chemical energy.

• food chain

• food web

• NPP

  net primary productivity

• GPP

  gross primary productivity

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

Continual movement of the elements and compounds that make up nutrients through air, water, soil, rock, and living organisms within ecosystems.

• food chain

• decomposition cycle

• circle of life

• nutrient cycle

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Cycle that collects, purifies, and distributes Earth’s fixed supply of water.

• phosphorus cycle

• carbon cycle

• hydrologic cycle

• nitrogen cycle

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Cyclic movement of a nutrient in different chemical forms from the environment to organisms and then back to the environment.

Involves photosynthesis, respiration. It's directly affected by burning fossil fuels.

• phosphorus cycle

• carbon cycle

• hydrologic cycle

• nitrogen cycle

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-ESS2-1

Cyclic movement of a nutrient in different chemical forms from the environment to organisms and then back to the environment.

Bacteria move this nutrient between the atmosphere and biosphere.

Human production of fertilizer affects this cycle.

• phosphorus cycle

• carbon cycle

• hydrologic cycle

• nitrogen cycle

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Cyclic movement of a nutrient in different chemical forms from the environment to organisms and then back to the environment.

This nutrient does not enter the atmosphere like other nutrients.

Mining and sewage runoff affect this cycle.

• phosphorus cycle

• carbon cycle

• hydrologic cycle

• nitrogen cycle

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Precipitation that falls on land and flows over land surfaces into streams, rivers, lakes, wetlands, and the ocean, where it can evaporate and repeat the hydrologic cycle.

• surface runoff

• groundwater

• aquifer

• condensation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4