Unit 8: Flow of Energy Vocabulary

What is a series of events in an ecosystem in which organisms transfer energy by being eaten called?

• Food Web

• Food Chain

• Energy Pyramid

• Ecology

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What term describes the pattern of overlapping feeding relationships among various organisms in an ecosystem?

• Food Chain

• Birth Rate

• Food Web

• Immigration

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What is the study of how organisms interact with each other and their environment?

• Ecology

• Emigration

• Immigration

• Landslide

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

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NGSS.MS-LS2-5

What is the term for the movement of something away from a location?

• Immigration

• Emigration

• Ecology

• Landslide

What is the number of births per 1000 individuals in a certain period of time called?

• Death Rate

• Birth Rate

• Population Density

• Energy Pyramid

What is a diagram that shows the amount of energy that moves from one feeding level to another in a food web?

• Food Chain

• Energy Pyramid

• Food Web

• Landslide

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

What is the sliding down of a mass of earth or rock from a mountain or cliff called?

• Immigration

• Landslide

• Emigration

• Ecology

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

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What is the average number of individuals in a population per unit of area or volume?

• Birth Rate

• Death Rate

• Population Density

• Food Web

What is the term for the maximum population size that an environment can sustain indefinitely?

• Population Density

• Death Rate

• Birth Rate

• Carrying Capacity

__________ is an organism that only eats plants for energy.

• Carnivore
• Herbivore
• Omnivore
• Terivore

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6