Ecology Crossword

2. Non living factors.
5. All communities that are living.
6. Typically caused by new land formation and major disturbances.
8. Takes energy from the sun and turns it into food energy.
9. The whole earth, including all factors.
10. The study of how living things work with each other and their environments.
11. Contains pairs of different descriptions and directs the user to more descriptions.
14. When living things overproduce,other organisms struggle to survive,and there are different variations of organisms in an ecosystem.
15. All biotic factors in a certain area.
18. When both organisms benefit from each other.
19. When one organism benefits and has no affect on the other.
21. A type of pollution where rain or snow creates a run-off, carrying natural and human made pollutants to a body of water.

1. Typically caused by natural disasters and forces the ecosystem and land to regrow.
3. Water pollution that comes from a certain, single source.
4. The conditions and gasses that surround the earth.
7. Living factors.
12. When one organism benefits and the other is harmed.
13. A species not native to an ecosystem, and could potentially be harmful to that ecosystem.
16. Organisms that depend on producers to eat.
17. The living things in a community that are the same species.
20. Interconnected food chains.