Ecology puzzle
Across
- 3. Succession community is impacted by a disturbance.
- 5. the practice of living as a parasite in or on another organism.
- 6. an organism that produces organic compounds
- 7. a group of living things in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.
- 9. the branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.
- 11. certain traits give an adaptive advantage to organisms and they leave behind more offspring
- 15. symbiosis that is beneficial to both organisms involved.
- 16. the layers of gasses surrounding a planet or other celestial body
- 17. the regions of the surface, atmosphere, and hydrosphere of the earth.
- 19. a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.
- 20. a key for the identification of organisms based on a series of choices between alternative characters.
Down
- 1. One organism benefits, one unharmed
- 2. source pollution runoff from rain and snowmelt carries pollutants into waterways such as rivers, streams, lakes, wetlands, and even groundwater.
- 4. web a system of food chains.
- 5. Succession type of ecological succession
- 8. a single identifiable source of air, water, thermal, noise.
- 10. an organism that derives the organic compounds and energy it needs from the consumption of other organisms
- 12. physical rather than biological; not derived from living organisms.
- 13. species that is non-native
- 14. a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
- 18. relating to or resulting from living things, especially in their ecological relations.