Unit 7 Vocabulary Quiz

4. anything that constrains a population's size and slows or stops it from growing
8. the biological mechanism by which organisms adjust to new environments or to changes in their current environment.
10. a non-living organism that shapes its environment
11. population is an assortment of organisms of a species that live in the same place at the same time, and interbreed
14. An ecological community in which populations of plants or animals remain stable and exist in balance with each other and their environment
18. occurs in an area that had previously been inhabited but experienced a disturbance, such as a wildfire.
20. the order of colonization of species in an ecosystem from a barren or destroyed area of land
21. a geographic area where plants, animals, and other organisms, as well as weather and landscape, work together to form a bubble of life.

1. fulfilling the needs of current generations without compromising the needs of future generations
2. population is an assortment of organisms of a species that live in the same place at the same time, and interbreed
3. a large community of vegetation and wildlife adapted to a specific climate.
5. occurs in an environment without previous life, or a barren habitat
6. all of the animal life present in a particular region or time
7. a group of organisms that can reproduce with one another in nature and produce fertile offspring.
9. a living organism that shapes its environment
12. the area and resources used by a particular species (the habitat of a species) or an assemblage of animals and plants together with their abiotic environment
13. all the different kinds of life you'll find in one area
15. the effect that a pair of organisms living together in a community have on each other
16. the species that first colonize new habitats created by disturbance
17. a small area which differs somehow from the surrounding habitat
19. the plants occurring within a given region as well as to the publication of scientific descriptions of those plants