7th Grade: Matter and Energy in Ecosystems

A series of chemical reactions that convert light energy, water, and carbon dioxide into the food-energy molecule glucose and give off oxygen.

• Photosynthesis

• Ecosystem

• Glycolysis

• Producer

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

All the living things and nonliving things in a given area.

• Ecosystem

• Photosynthesis

• Cellular respiration

• glycolysis

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A series of chemical reactions that convert the energy in food molecules into a usable form of energy called ATP (Adenosine Triphosphate)

• Ecosystem

• Photosynthesis

• Producer

• Cellular Respiration

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NGSS.MS-LS1-7

A process by which glucose, a sugar, is broken down into smaller molecules.

• Glycolysis

• Photosynthesis

• cellular respiration

• consumer

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NGSS.MS-LS1-7

An organism that cannot make its own food and gets energy by eating other organisms

• consumer

• producer

• detritivore

• food chain

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an organism that uses an outside energy source, such as the Sun, and produces its own food.

• producer

• consumer

• ecosystem

• detritivore

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An organism that consumes the bodies of dead organisms and wastes produced by living organisms (flies, earthworms, snails, dung beetles, millipedes, etc).

• producer

• consumer

• detritivore

• food web

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A model that shows how energy flows in an ecosystem through feeding relationships.

• Food Chain

• Food Web

• Energy Pyramid

• Ecosystem

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

A model of energy transfer that can show how the food chains in a community are interconnected.

• Food web

• Food chain

• energy pyramid

• ecosystem

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A model that shows the amount of energy available in each link of a food chain

• energy pyramid

• food chain

• food web

• photosynthesis

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3