5.9CD - Vocabulary

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

• Carrying capacity
• Environment
• Overpopulation -
• Population

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

• Carrying capacity
• Environment
• Overpopulation -
• Population

to directly affect or change

• Environment
• Impact
• Decay -
• Imprint

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.

• Carrying capacity
• Environment
• Overpopulation -
• Population

All the interacting members of a species in a single area

• Fossil -
• Model
• Population -
• Carrying Capacity

to degrade or break down into smaller parts

• Sediment
• Decay -
• Model -
• Fossil

a preserved part or trace of an animal or plant that lived in the past

• Fossil -
• Sediment
• Decay -
• Imprint

a mark or depression made by pressure

• Fossil -
• Imprint -
• Decay -
• Model

A limited representation of something that can help us understand its structure or how it works

• Fossil -
• Sediment
• Model -
• Impact

sand or small pieces of rock broken down by weathering and deposited on land or at the bottom of a body of water

• Fossil -
• Weathering
• Sediment -
• Model