Ecology Vocabulary Review

the study of living things and their environments

• consumer

• ecology

• conservation

• producer

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

everything that surrounds a living thing

• niche

• decomposer

• environment

• food web

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

gradual change in organisms that occurs when the environment changes

• excretion

• pollution

• response

• succession

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS3-1

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

bacteria that can use nitrogen in soil to make nitrogen compounds

• habitat

• nitrogen-fixing bacteria

• ecosystem

• population

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

group of the same kind of organism living in a certain place

• population

• excretion

• third level consumers

• carnivores

to act upon each other

• conservation

• interact

• endangered species

• Adaptation

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

organisms that eat secondary consumers and are found in the third level of consumers of food pyramid (whale)

• abiotic

• herbivores

• carnivores

• ingestion

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

an organisms that make their own food through the process of photosynthesis

• producers

• ingestion

• organism

• endangered species

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

organisms that eat other organism

• consumers

• predator

• succession

• scavenger

animal that eats only dead organisms

• niche

• scavenger

• ecology

• consumer