Chapter 1 Vocab

Match the following

• part of Earth in which life exists

• community

• layer of gases around Earth

• biosphere

• average weather over time

• climate

• different populations in one area

• atmosphere

• layer underneath canopy

• understory

Match the following

• region created by human interactions

• wetland

• ecosystem where water covers soil

• geosphere

• all the rock on Earth

• ecology

• organisms and their abiotic factors

• ecosystem

• study of interactions

• anthrome

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Match the following

• similar organisms that can interbreed

• biotic factor

• living things in the environment

• estuary

• material made of decaying leaves

• photic zone

• wetland where river meets ocean

• species

• sunlight region near surface of water

• humus

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Match the following

• biome with long cold winter

• hydrosphere

• ecosystems that share similar climate

• population

• group of same species in one area

• aphotic zone

• all the water on Earth

• biome

• dark layer beneath sunlight region

• taiga

Match the following

• covering formed by leafy tops of trees

• weather

• microscopic organisms in the water

• permafrost

• non-living things in the environment

• canopy

• day to day conditions of the atmosphere

• abiotic factor

• permanently frozen subsoil

• plankton

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5