Any harmful substance in the environment that changes an ecosystem. This includes trash, toxic waste, and harmful chemicals.
The area, or location, that contains all of the living and nonliving things that meet an organisms' needs
It is a process by which species change over many generations through mutation.
An organism that eats other living things.
The greatest producer of pollution in the environment.
All the living and nonliving things in an area that interact with each other and include several habitats.
Organisms which carry out the process of decomposition by breaking down dead or decaying organisms
A model that shows many different feeding relationships among living things.
The unique role that an organism has in its habitat.
The total number of members of one species within an ecosystem or habitat.
The highest number of any population that an ecosystem can support without affecting the number of the other populations in the ecosystem.