Week 20 Vocabulary

The living and nonliving things that are around an organism

• environment
• population
• indigenous
• invasive species

The population size an environment can feed and support

• population
• carrying capacity
• environment
• overpopulation

All the living things that belong to the same group and live in the same area

• population
• carrying capacity
• environment
• invasive species

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

• deforestation
• extinction
• overpopulation
• invasive species

Protecting and preserving natural resources and the environment

• conservation
• overpopulation
• deforestation
• invasive species

The removal of trees faster than forests can replace themselves

• non-native species
• overpopulation
• extinction
• deforestation

The death of every member of a species on Earth

• deforestation
• extinction
• invasive species
• indigenous

Species that enter new ecosystems and multiply, harming native species and their habitats

• invasive species
• non-native species
• indigenous
• population

Species introduced deliberately or accidentally from somewhere else

• invasive species
• non-native species
• indigneous
• extinction

Native to an area, originating in a region

• invasive species
• indigenous
• extinction
• population