Ecosystem Vocabulary

Living things within an ecosystem.

• Biotic Factors

• Limiting Factor

• Carry Capacity

• Abiotic Factors

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NGSS.MS-LS2-2

Animal that hunts and kills other animals for food.

• Prey

• Consumer

• Predator

• Carnivore

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NGSS.MS-LS2-4

In an ecosystem, refers to the unique ways an organism survives, obtains food and shelter, and avoids danger.

• Habitat

• Niche

• Biomes

• Ecosystem

Largest number of individuals of a particular species that an ecosystem can support over time.

• Carrying Capacity

• Limiting Factor

Anything that can limit the size of a population, including living and nonliving features of an ecosystem, such as predators or drought.

• Carrying Capacity

• Limiting Factor

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Consume wastes and dead organisms.

• Carnivore

• Omnivore

• Decomposer

• Producer

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Complex network of many interconnected food chains and feeding relationships.

• Food chain

• Food web

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

An animal that is hunted and caught for food. It is a consumer; it may be a herbivore, omnivore, or carnivore.

• Producer

• Prey

• Predator

• Organism

One of any living thing.

• Prey

• Predator

• Organism

• Producer

Chain showing how energy passes from one organism to the next.

• Food chain

• Food Web

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3