Ecosystems & Adaptations- Inves. 3-5

A pre-existing, genetic characteristic of an organism that helps it live in its environment

• Competition

• Adaptation

• Interdependence

• Natural Selection

The quantity of living matter in an ecosystem

• Biomass

• Environment

• Ecosystem

• Competition

A situation that exists when two or more different species require the same environmental resource

• Competition

• Adaptation

• Natural Selection

• Biomass

No longer living; completely died off

• Fossil

• Extinct

• Adaptation

• Natural Selection

The remains or impressions of plants and animal now preserved in rocks

• Fossil

• Extinct

• Natural Selection

• Adaptation

The process by which organisms that are best adapted to their environment tend to survive and reproduce

• Natural Selection

• Competition

• Adaptation

Addition of harmful particles and gases into the air

• Land Pollution

• Air Pollution

• Water Pollution

A community of living things and its non-living environment

• Ecosystems

• Environment

• Biomass

• Adaptation

Describes how changes in one aspect of the environment can causes changes in another aspect of the environment

• Interdependence

• Adaptation

• Natural Selection

• Competition

Addition of harmful materials into the soil

• Land Pollution

• Air Pollution

• Water Pollution