Biodiversity
Across
- 1. Most numerous vertebrate animals
- 3. Study of interactions among organisms and their environment
- 6. Process that cleanses water
- 8. Natural environment of an organism
- 11. Provides natural services like soil fertility
- 12. Dominated by flowering plants
- 15. Areas with extremely high biodiversity under threat
- 16. Animals without backbones
- 19. Includes plants, fungi, and animals
- 20. Estimated number of species of plants on Earth
- 21. Variety of all forms of life on Earth
- 22. Variety of ecosystems or ecological diversity
- 23. Component of biodiversity that includes genetic diversity
- 24. Source of food and energy, including water and clean air
Down
- 2. Interaction between different organisms living closely
- 4. Microscopic life forms such as bacteria
- 5. Groups of organisms that can reproduce together
- 7. Variety of species in a specific area
- 9. Changes in organisms to survive in their environment
- 10. Process by which organisms make energy
- 13. Species found only in one specific location
- 14. Remains of ancient organisms
- 17. Medicines derived from microorganisms
- 18. Flowering plants that dominate plant species