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

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

when animals graze so much that the vegetation is damaged

• impact
• overpopulation
• overgrazing
• fertilize

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

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

The living and non-liivng things that interact in an environment.

• Living/Non-living cycle

• Food Web

• Ecosystem

• Organism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

An organism that hunts and feeds on another organism

• Food Chain

• Ecosystem

• Organism

• Predator

A direct effect or change

• Create

• Impact

• Change

• Benefit

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-2

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

Overcrowding of a population, loss of natural resources

• Overpopulation

• Benefit

• Ecosurplus

• Vegetation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-1