Chapter_3_Essential_Environment_4th_Edition_Ecology

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Across
  1. 2. helps us understand why ecosystems, communities, and populations are distributed across geographic regions
  2. 4. consists of an assemblage of populations of interacting species that inhabit the same area
  3. 7. where an organism lives
  4. 9. scientists who study relationships at higher levels of this hierarchy-organism, population, community, ecosystem, landscape and biosphere
  5. 11. expressed as the number of individual organisms present, increase, decrease, undergo cyclical change or remain stable over time
  6. 13. communities and the abiotic materials and forces with which community members interact
  7. 15. functional role in the organisms community
  8. 16. scientific study of interactions among organisms and relationship between organisms and environment
Down
  1. 1. thrives in certain habitats but not others
  2. 3. "jack of all trades"
  3. 5. mobile organisms actively select habitats from the range of options they encounter
  4. 6. flow of energy and nutrients by studying living and nonliving components of systems in conjunction
  5. 8. dynamics of population change and the factors that affect the distribution and abundance of members of a population
  6. 10. patterns of species diversity and on interactions among species, ranging from one-to-one interactions up to complex interrelationships involving an entire community
  7. 12. cumulative total of living things on Earth and areas they inhabit, atoms, molecules, cells
  8. 14. narrow breadth