ecology 1

2. movement of animals from one region to another, often for reasons like finding food, breeding
6. A fight between organisms for a common resource
7. The variety of life forms in one area.
9. an organism can make its own food through photosynthesis
11. non living organisms
13. the maximum number of species that an environment can support over a long time due to amount of resources; water, food, shelter, space
14. A geographic area where biotic and abiotic factors interact
15. an observable event that occurs in the natural world, leading to curiosity.
17. eats other animals or plants, rather than making its own food.
19. A process, rule or set of instructions
21. information acquired through observation and experimentation

1. The ways humans and the natural world co-exist, interact and influence each other across different societies over time.
3. a plan to conserve a natural place, ecosystem, and/or organism that details how it will be protected with goals and outcomes.
4. To preserve or protect a space
5. A factor that limits the growth of a population
8. an organism that hunts, kills, and eats other organisms for food
10. a non-native organism that causes harm to the environment, economy, or human health after being introduced to a new ecosystem
12. Study of relationships between living organisms and their physical environment
16. the natural environment where an organism lives and that provides the resources it needs to survive
18. living organisms
20. an organism that is hunted and killed for food by another organism