Cause climate change by trapping heat, and they also contribute to respiratory disease from smog and air pollution.

Extreme weather, food supply disruptions, and increased wildfires

Extreme pollution

Extreme heat

rapid changes that create an ecosystem overnight

gradual changes over time to fully create or restore and ecosystem

forest with the tallest trees

the rate species produce offspring

An ecosystem that is just beginning to grow.

An ecosystem that is stable and mature and has reached the final stages of succession.

An ecosystem that is damaged by a forest fire.

An ecosystem that is damaged by a landslide.

Too many predators

Too many herbivores

Excess fertilizer

Too much oxygen

extremely slower

slower

faster

A series of predictable changes that occur in a community over time.

It is the number of fish increasing.

It is the seasons of the year.

It is that rain follows cloud formation.

An area of low oxygen in water

A single point where water drains to

Where fresh water and salt water meet

The water is brackish because salt water is mixing with fresh water

Decomposer microbes have multiplied and are using up oxygen

Nutrients from runoff are promoting floating algae growth

No plants are able to grow because of a lack of sunlight

Burning of fossil fuels

Deforestation

Overfishing

Farming with fertilizers

form of water pollution where a nutrient, like nitrogen, is suddenly added to an aquatic environment, causing out-of-control algae growth.

a form of water pollution where a nutrient is added and nothing happens

form of water pollution that kills algae