Crossword Biodiversity

6. place where an organism or a community of organisms lives, including all living and nonliving factors or conditions of the surrounding environment.
8. A population describes a group of individuals of the same species occupying a specific area at a specific time.
11. a group of individuals of the same species living and interbreeding within a given area.
13. is all of the populations of different species that live in the same area and interact with one another.
14. is a system consisting of biotic and abiotic components that function together as a unit.
16. is an organism that causes ecological or economic harm in a new environment where it is not native.
17. a German zoologist and botanist, one of the founders of ecology
18. are species that move from one habitat to another during different times of the year, as they cannot live in the same environment all year round due to seasonal limitations in factors such as food, sunlight, and temperature.
19. refers to all the variety of life that can be found on Earth (plants, animals, fungi and micro-organisms) as well as to the communities that they form and the habitats in which they live.
20. any of the numerous gradual, long-term responses of an organism to changes in its environment.

1. refers to the decrease in forest areas across the world that are lost for other uses such as agricultural croplands, urbanization, or mining activities.
2. A theory thus assumes that an individual's color preferences at a particular time are determined by their combined affective response to environmental objects and situations associated with each color.
3. refers to the capability of a natural system to apply self—regulating mechanisms so as to return to a steady state after an outside disturbance.
4. Ecosystems that are made by man for commercial or other benefits.
5. is the ability to maintain a relatively stable internal state that persists despite changes in the world outside.
7. refers to the process of adjusting in behavior, physiology, or structure to become more suited to an environment.
9. A species surviving from an ancient time in isolated populations that represent the localized remains of a distribution which was originally much wider.
10. A major ecological community of organisms adapted to a particular climatic or environmental condition on a large geographic area in which they occur.
12. the process by which the structure of a biological community evolves over time.
15. the group of interacting organisms living in a specific habitat in a macro scale (sea, mountain ranges, oceans).