Ch 8 Understanding Population
Across
- 5. individuals fight over resources when feeding (2 words, no space)
- 7. number of individuals per unit area or volume
- 8. an organism that lives in or on another organism
- 11. the set of individuals within a species living in the same place at the same time
- 15. a relationship in which different individuals or populations attempt to use the same limited resource
- 16. occurs in the population that grow faster and faster and have plenty of food and space (2 words, no space)
- 17. the organism that is fed upon
- 19. a relationship in which 2 species live in close association
- 20. when a specie consumes resources at the same rate at which the ecosystem produces the resource (2 words, no space)
- 21. a close relationship between 2 species in which each species provides a benefit to the other
- 22. the individual gets the most resources the fastest without fighting is the winner (2 words, no space)
Down
- 1. the maximum number of offspring that each member of the population can produce (2 words, no space)
- 2. a relationship in which one species benefits and other species is neither harmed nor helped
- 3. the relationship where there is a parasite and a host, win-lose
- 4. the population size where birth rates and death rates are equal (2 words, no space)
- 6. the percentage change in the size of population over a give period of time (two words, no space)
- 9. a location where the specie lives
- 10. the range of conditions in which a specie can survive
- 12. when each species uses less of the niche than it is capable of using (2 words, no space)
- 13. an organism that feeds on another organism
- 14. total number of individuals
- 18. the arrangement of its individuals in space