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B- Unit 3 Lesson 22
Effects of Changing Conditions
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| biodiversity | the variation among organisms in an ecosystem |
| community | all the organisms living in a given area |
| ecosystem | all the organisms in a given area along with the nonliving things with which they interact |
| invasive species | an introduced species that now shows an ability to outcompete native species in an ecosystem |
| introduced species | a species not native to an ecosystem, but rather accidentally (or intentionally) transported to the ecosystem by human activity or other means |
| population | all members of a particular species in a given area at a given time |
| species richness | the number of species in a community |