Unit 1 - 1 Key Terms

The maximum number of organisms an ecosystem can support

• Limiting Factor

• Communities

• Mutualism

• Carrying Capacity

  
  

A biotic or abiotic environmental factor that restricts the growth of a population

• Limiting Factor

  
  

• Communities

• Keystone Species

  
  

• Boundary

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

Living, or produced by living things

• Abiotic

• Biotic

• Limiting Factor

  
  

• Keystone Species

  
  

Not living, or produced by nonliving things

• Biotic

• Limiting Factor

  
  

• Abiotic

• Mutualism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

All of the interacting populations in an area

• Biotic

• Mutualism

• Commensalism

• Communities

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

A process by which the heritable characteristics of a population change such that the organisms in the population become better able to survive and reproduce in their environment

• Adaptation

• Competition

• Communities

• Mutualism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS4-4

A dividing line.

• Keystone Species

  
  

• Boundary

• Abiotic

• Competition

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

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

• Competition

• Parasitism

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

A condition that occurs when two or more organisms compete for the same resources within an ecological community

• Competition

• Commensalism

• Mutualism

• Parasitism

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-2

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

• Abiotic

• Biotic

• Communities

• Keystone Species

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-4