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Unit 1 Life Science
Basic Needs/Resources - Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |