Lesson 8.5 Exit Ticket

carrying capacity

• the largest population that an environment can support at any given time

• the struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources

• Protecting and preserving natural resources and the environment

• grassland ecosystem in northern Tanzania

Answer explanation

competition

• the struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources

• The number of individuals in an area of a specific size

• grassland ecosystem in northern Tanzania

• Protecting and preserving natural resources and the environment

population density

• The number of individuals in an area of a specific size

• the struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources

• Protecting and preserving natural resources and the environment

conservation

• Protecting and preserving natural resources and the environment

• the struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources

• grassland ecosystem in northern Tanzania

• The number of individuals in an area of a specific size

keystone species

• a species that has an unusually large effect on its ecosystem

• the struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources

• The number of individuals in an area of a specific size

• Protecting and preserving natural resources and the environment

Serengeti Ecosystem

• grassland ecosystem in northern Tanzania

• the struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources

• Protecting and preserving natural resources and the environment

• The number of individuals in an area of a specific size

Answer explanation

ecological change

• change brought about by the way a population uses the natural resources available to it

• the struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources

• The number of individuals in an area of a specific size

• Protecting and preserving natural resources and the environment

ecological stability

• when an ecosystem adapts/changes in order to survive changing environmental conditions

• the struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources

• Protecting and preserving natural resources and the environment

• The number of individuals in an area of a specific size