Science Unit 12 Interdependency and Environmental Changes

The space, conditions and all the living and nonliving things around an organism.

• habitat

• environment

• shelter

• ecosystem

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-5

To directly affect or change.

• hinder

• impact

• alter

• cause

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NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

An increase in the number of individuals of a given species over what its ecosystem can sustain, often with both direct and indirect effects on other in the ecosystems.

• population

• species

• overpopulation

• capacity

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NGSS.MS-LS2-1

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

All the interacting members of a species in a single area.

• community

• population

• organism

• consumer

The maximum population size that can be sustained by a given environment.

• environment

• overpopulation

• carrying capacity

• population