LS.6 Ecosystems Vocabulary

LS.6 The student will investigate and understand that populations that organisms within an ecosystem are dependent on one another and on nonliving components of the environment; Key Ideas include: a) the carbon, water, and nitrogen cycles; b) interactions resulting in a flow of energy and matter throughout the system; c) complex relationships within terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems; and d) energy flow in food webs and energy pyramids.