Chapter 5 Vocabulary Review

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Across
  1. 1. the ability to survive and reproduce under changing environmental conditions
  2. 7. species that first colonize newly exposed land
  3. 9. how reproductively successful an organism is in its environment
  4. 10. primary consumers
  5. 12. change over time
  6. 14. the process by which new species are generated
  7. 15. the total amount of living tissue
Down
  1. 2. a heritable trait that increases individual fitness
  2. 3. a relationship in which two or more species benefit
  3. 4. the predictable series of changes over time experienced by an ecological community
  4. 5. a species that has strong or wide reaching impact on a community
  5. 6. a physically close relationship in which at least one organism benefits
  6. 8. the process by which one species hunts and kills another
  7. 11. the disappearance of a species
  8. 13. an organism's use of resources and functional role in a community