Environmental Changes Vocabulary

Size of population that an environment can support and feed.

• change

• carrying capacity

• decrease

To become or make different.

• carrying capacity

• change

• decrease

To lessen in number, size, strength, or quality.

• carrying capacity

• change

• decrease

The living and nonliving things that are around an organism.

• change

• decrease

• environment

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Animals that continuously feed on growing grasses such as cattle or sheep.

• grazers

• environment

• change

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Direct effect or change.

• grazers

• impact

• increase

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

To become greater in number, size, strength, or quality.

• decrease

• impact

• increase

A living thing.

• organism

• carrying capacity

• grazers

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

All the living things that belong to the same group and live in the same area.

• vegetation

• population

• organism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Plant life in an ecosystem.

• vegetation

• environment

• organism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

NGSS.MS-LS2-4