Ecosystems

______________does not produce its own food, it eats other living things for energy.

• Producer

• Consumer

• Decomposer

• environment

____________________ a group of the same kind of plant or animal living in the same place

• community

• habitat

• environment

• population

________________very dry land that can be either very hot or very cold.

• marshland

• tropical rain forest

• desert

• deciduous forest

___________________organisms which feed off dead plants and animals and reduces their remains to minerals and gases again

• producer

• consumer

• decomposer

• population

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

____________________ is warm and very wet, plants grow in layers.

• community

• Deciduous forest

• Rainforest

• environment

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

___________________ organism that takes nonliving matter and uses it to produce food or energy for itself.

• producer

• consumer

• decomposer

• population

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

____________________fresh or salt water that is located near streams or rivers

• habitat

• marshland

• desert

• decomposer

_________________ a place where a plant or animals lives and grows naturally (their home)

• decomposer

• producer

• population

• habitat

_______________all the populations, such as plants and animals living together in the same place

• community

• environment

• food chain

• habitat

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

__________________ cool and rainy, plants in this habitat change with all four seasons

• Marshland

• Desert

• Deciduous Forest

• Rainforest

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-4