Unit 7- Environments

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

• Carrying Capacity

• Environment

• Impact

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

• Impact

• Environment

• Overpopulation

To directly affect or change

• Impact

• Overpopulation

• Population

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

• Overpopulation

• Environment

• Carrying Capacity

All the interacting members of a species in a single area

• Population

• Impact

• Environment

An organism that gets energy from eating plants or animals

• Consumer

• Decomposer

• Food Web

An organism that breaks down the remains of dead plants or animals without need for internal digestion

• Decomposer

• Consumer

• Producer

An interconnected set of food chains

• Food Web

• Producer

• Decomposer

An organism that uses sunlight to make its own food for energy

• Producer

• Decomposer

• Consumer

Any characteristic that helps a plant or animal survive

• Adaptation

• Carnivore

• Consumer