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Carrying Capacity

The maximum population size that can be sustained by a given environment

Environment

The space, conditions, and all the living and nonliving things around an organism

Impact

To directly affect or change

Overpopulation

An increase in the number of individuals of a given species over what its ecosystem can sustain, often with both direct and indirect effects on other organisms in the ecosystem

Population

All the interacting members of a species in a single area

Predator

An animal that hunts or eats other animals

Prey

An animal that gets eaten by another animal

Species

A group of animals, plants or other living things that all share common traits