BIOSHPERE Crossword
Across
- 4. function of an organism in a community of plants and animals.
- 7. factor an environmental factor that tends to limit population size.
- 10. capacity maximum number of species
- 14. A person or thing that reacts
- 15. an animal or other organism that feeds on dead organic matter.
- 17. an organism requiring organic compounds
- 19. the decay of which depletes the shallow waters of oxygen in summer.
- 20. a relationship between two species of organisms in which both benefit from the association.
- 21. a class of individuals having some common characteristics or qualities
- 22. species hardy species which are the first to colonize barren environments
- 23. a relation between organisms in which one lives as a parasite on another.
- 26. mutualism, commensalism, or parasitism.
- 27. eats both plants and flesh
- 28. An animal that eats flesh
- 29. a group of interconnected elements
- 30. the act of breathing
- 31. a locality inhabited by such a group.
Down
- 1. Non-life
- 2. life
- 3. he ecosystem comprising the entire earth and the living organisms that inhabit it.
- 5. the natural environment of an organism
- 6. thing produced by labor
- 8. a type of relationship between two species where one does not get damaged
- 9. an animal capable of self-nutrition
- 11. adjustment
- 12. a relation between animals in which one organism captures and feeds on others.
- 13. A process that plants use
- 16. The total number of organisms in one area
- 18. An animal that eats plants
- 24. Also called ecological succession
- 25. a complex biotic community characterized by distinctive plant and animal species and maintained under the climatic conditions of the region