Colin's Ecology crossword puzzle
Across
- 3. non-living factor that effects the environment
- 8. organism that breaks down dead organic material
- 12. anything that delays or decreases the growth of a population
- 16. the struggle between organisms for resources in their environment
- 18. All of the organisms of a given area and the encompassing physical environment.
- 19. the area and resources used by a particular species (the habitat of a species) or an assemblage of animals and plants together with their abiotic environment
- 20. the changing of energy from one form to another
Down
- 1. plant that produces its own food by taking in sunlight
- 2. new species in an environment that is harmful and overpopulating
- 4. the variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.
- 5. living organism that effects the environment
- 6. the surrounding conditions in which an organism lives
- 7. an innate, typically fixed pattern of behavior in animals in response to certain stimuli.
- 9. a diagram that shows how energy is transferred through organisms in a ecosystem
- 10. an organism that helps define an entire ecosystem.
- 11. the amount of organisms a certain environment can hold, and allow for those organisms to survive
- 13. a visual representation of what animals eat certain animals
- 14. differences in genes of a species
- 15. the study of an organisms relations to each
- 17. any organism that can't make its own food