5.9C: Changes in Ecosystems

the area that includes living and nonliving things around an organsim

• habitat
• community
• environment
• population

direct effect or change

• impact
• environmental factor
• cause and effect
• difference

an increase in the population of an area which causes a direct effect on the environment

• impact
• overgrazing
• overpopulation
• capacity

when animals graze so much that the vegetation is damaged

• impact
• overpopulation
• overgrazing
• fertilize

maximum size that can be contained

• population
• overpopulation
• limit
• capacity

all of the interacting members of the same species in an area

• population
• community
• species
• environment