Ecosystems and Organism Roles

Area where living and nonliving things interact.

• carnivore

• food chain

• abiotic

• ecosystem

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Group of the same kind of organisms that live in one area.

• symbiotic

• population

• herbivore

• endangered

An organism that makes its own food.

• producer

• adaptation

• extinction

• food web

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

An organism that eats other organisms for food and energy.

• habitat

• ecosystem

• consumer

• mutualism

A transfer of food energy from one organism to another. (producer to consumer to decomposer back to producer)

• food chain

• parasitism

• biotic

• non-native

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Nonliving things in an environment.

• adaptation

• abiotic

• food chain

• ecosystem

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A part or behavior that makes a living thing better able to

survive in its environment.

• producer

• population

• mutualism

• adaptation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Living things in an environment.

• commensalism

• food web

• biotic

• habitat

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

An animal that eats only meat.

• prey

• carnivore

• sun

• native

A living thing that breaks down and feeds on the remains

of once living organisms.

• decomposer

• symbiotic

• herbivore

• extinction

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3