Carrying Capacity Vocab

Not living, or produced by nonliving things

• Abiotic

• Biotic

When the inheritable characteristics of a population change in order for the organisms in the population to better survive and reproduce

• immigration

• inheritance

• Adaptation

• winning

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

Living, or produced by living things

• Abiotic

• Biotic

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

NGSS.MS-LS1-3

A dividing line

• equator

• fence

• perimeter

• boundary

The maximum number of organisms an ecosystem can hold

• limiting factor

• carrying capacity

• biodiversity

• limit

A symbiotic relationship where one organism benefits and the other organism is neither harmed nor helped.

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Predation

• Symbiosis

Community: All of the interacting populations in an area

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Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

A condition that occurs when two or more organisms compete for the same resources

• competition

• predation

• parasitism

• mutualism

A species that, if removed from an ecosystem, would cause a major change in that ecosystem.

• Endangered species

• unlimited species

• important species

• keystone species

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5

Biotic or Abiotic factor that restricts the growth of the population

• carrying capacity

• limiting factor

• abiotic factor

• biotic factor

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4