Nys Regents Living Environment Vocabulary

An organism that makes its own food.

• Consumer
• Producer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

An organism that cannot make its own food.

• Consumer
• Producer

Highest level of biological organization-all parts of the Earth.

• Biosphere
• Ecosystem
• Population
• Community

Community and the abiotic factors that affect it.

• Population
• Ecosystem
• Biosphere
• Organism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Populations of different species that interact in some way.

• Organism
• Population
• Community
• Ecosystem

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

All the individuals of one species living in the same area

• Organism
• Population
• Community
• Ecosystem

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

A single individual from a population.

• Organism
• Population
• Community
• Ecosystem

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Non-living factors within an environment

• Abiotic
• Biotic

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Living factors within an environment.

• Abiotic
• Biotic

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Model used to describe the amount of energy moving from one feeding level to another.

• Food Chain
• Food Web
• Energy Pyramid
• Energy Chain

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3