Environmental Changes

2. web overlapping food chains with different pathways for the flow of food energy in an ecosystem
3. the place or environment where an organism naturally lives and grows, and where it has everything it needs to survive
8. all the specific species of an organism (animal or plant) that live in an environment; for example, all the gopher tortoises that live in the Brooker Creek Preserve
9. loss this happens when a habitat is destroyed; an example would be cutting down a forest or building a neighborhood that causes animals or plants to lose their homes
11. all the living (plants, animals and organisms) and nonliving (soil, air, water) things that surround and affect an organism in its habitat

1. the way all organisms act to make sure they have everything they need of any limited resource in their environment; for example, squirrels compete with other squirrels to collect and hide all the acorns they will need to survive
4. (verb) to change or adjust a physical or behavioral characteristic
5. (noun) a trait or characteristic that an organism develops over time to help it survive in a changing environment
6. chain the path of food energy from one organism to another in an ecosystem
7. an organism's ability to live, grow and reproduce
10. to make more organisms of the same kind
11. all the living and nonliving things that interact with each other in an environment