Population Ecology Crossword - Unit #3

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Across

  1. The largest number of organisms an environment can support.
  2. Something that causes a population to decrease.
  3. The biological factors or influences on an organism within an ecosystem.
  4. Water evaporation from the leaves of plants.
  5. Limiting factors that affect all populations in the same way, regardless of population size.
  6. The movement of individuals out of an area.
  7. The physical, or nonliving factors that shape an ecosystem.
  8. All chemical substances that an organism needs to sustain life.
  9. A relationship in which bith species benefit.
  10. The process by which water changes from a liquid form to an atmospheric gas.
  11. Any necessity for life, such as food, water, light, and space.

Down

  1. An interaction in which one organism capturea and feeds on another organism.
  2. Cycles connecting the biological, geological, and chemical aspects of the biospere.
  3. The type of growth that occurs in a J-shaped curve.
  4. Soil bacteria convert nitrates into nitrogen gas in this process.
  5. The movement of individuals into an area.
  6. A limiting factor that depends on a populations size.
  7. A relationship in which one species lives in or on another species, harming it in the process.
  8. The process by which bacteria convert nitrogen gas into ammonia in plant legumes.
  9. The number of individuals per unit area.
  10. The type of growth that occurs when a population reaches the carrying capacity.
  11. A relationship in which one species benefits and the other species is neither helped nor harmed.
  12. Any relationship in which two species live close together.
  13. The full range of physical and biological conditions in which an organism lives and the way in which the organism uses those conditions.


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