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Unit 1 Life Science
Basic Needs/Resources - Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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Any living creature on the planet | Organism |
All living or deceased organisms are ______. | Biotic |
Everything in the world | Environment |
To be able to make another organism of the same kind | Reproduce |
Nonliving objects in the world | Abiotic |
Another word for food | Nutrients |
The basic things an organism can use everyday to survive | Resources |
A group of similar organisms | Population |
Resources you can touch like gas, wood and food | Material Resources |
Something you must have in order to stay alive like air, water, and nutrients | Need |
Resources that you cannot touch like happiness, peace, feelings of safety | Nonmaterial resources |
A resource that can be made again like living organisms | Renewable Resource |
Resource that can take a long time to be made again, sometimes these resources cannot be made again at all | Nonrenewable Resources |
Anything you feel like having that is not a need | Want |
A large field where trash is dumped and buried | Landfill |
Using less resources | reduce |
Using your resources again WITHOUT changing them | Reuse |
Using your resources again AFTER changing them | Recycle |
People | Humans |
the place where an organism lives in the environment | Habitat |
What an organism does in its habitat | Niche |
When all of the organisms of a similar kind (or population) are no longer alive throughout the world. | Extinct |