Changing Environments and Organism's Survival

to save or protect things found in nature that requires the sensible use of all Earth's natural resources: water, soil, minerals, wildlife, and forests

• Conservation

• Environmental change

• Extinct

• Thriving

an organism that eats another organism

• Thriving

• prey

• predator

• conserve

the rivalry between or among living things for territory, resources, goods, mates, etc.

• prey

• predator

• competition

• resource

number of individuals of a particular species in an area.

• prey

• competition

• organism

• population

a short supply

• competition

• people

• scarcity

• population

Organisms are no longer alive due to being hunted, killed off, or too many environmental changes

• extinct

• endangered

• thriving

• threatened

Organisms in serious dangerof becoming extinct; not many left

• extinct

• endangered

• threatened

• thriving

Organisms that could become endangered if their environment continues to make it difficult for them to survive

• extinct

• endangered

• threatened

• thriving

Organisms have what they need in order to survive; not in danger of going extinct

• extinct

• endangered

• threatened

• thriving

change or process occurs in small stages over a long period of time, rather than suddenly.

• sudden change

• gradual change

• extinct

• earthquake