Animal Populations Vocab - NEW

__________ is what happens when harmful materials get into the air, land, or water

• Pollution

• Extinct

• Natural Disaster

• Threatened

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-3

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

____________ is a specific kind of organism

• Natural Disaster

• Extinct

• Invasive

• Species

_________ is a natural event that causes destruction in an enviornment

• Natural Disaster

• Thriving

• Threatened

• Exotic Species

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

________ is an exotic species that cannot be easily controlled (it takes over)

• Extinct

• Poulltion

• Invasive Species

• Population

________ is when there are NO members of a species left

• Extinct

• Threatened

• Thriving

• Endangered

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-1

_______- is when there are only a few members of a species left

• Endangered

• Threatened

• Thriving

• Extinct

____________ is when an organism may become rare in the future ( the population is decreasing)

• Endangered

• Thriving

• Threatened

• Extinct

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

_____________ is ALL the members of one species in an environment

• Extinct

• Species

• Threatened

• Population

________ is a species that is new to an environment (called a nonnative species)

• Exotic Species

• Invasive Species

• Thriving

• Population

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

___________ is when an organism is NOT in danger of dying out

• Threatened

• Thriving

• Extinct

• Endangered