Ecology Vocabulary

Factors in an ecosystem that are living.

• ecosystems

• biotic factors

• biosphere

• abiotic factors

Abiotic Factors: factors in an ecosystem that are _______.

• living

• organisms

• non-living

• populations

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

A single living thing.

• organism

• object

• entity

• being

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NGSS.MS-LS1-1

Habitat: a place where a particular type of organism _______.

• sleeps

• eats

• lives

• grows

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Ecosystem: a group of living things and their _______.

• communities

• habitats

• environments

• surroundings

Biosphere: the layers of _______, _______, and _______ that support life on Earth.

• land, water, air

• fire, earth, wind

• soil, ocean, sky

• rock, river, cloud

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

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A group of the same type of organism that can reproduce.

• habitat

• species

• biosphere

• community

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3

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A group of the same species living in the same area.

• population

• ecosystem

• biosphere

• organism

A community is all the different _______ of organisms that live and interact in the same area.

• habitats

• biospheres

• abiotic factors

• populations

An ecosystem includes ONLY biotic factors.

• true

• false

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NGSS.MS-LS2-3