ecology crossword

1. Energy Sources, Energy derived from unsustainable sources,
3. Succession, Occurs after a community has been impacted by some sort of disturbance such as a fire,
4. Succession: Occurs when a new patch of land that has no soil is exposed or created,
7. Pyramid, a diagram that shows the amounts of energy and biomass at each trophic level in an ecosystem,
11. organisms that eat only plant material,
12. The process of an individual entering a population,
13. Factors, all the living organisms in an environment,
14. Web, a combination of food chains through which the energy in an ecosystem flows,
16. meat-eating organisms,
18. organisms that must consume other organisms for energy,
23. Factors, the nonliving components of an environment,
24. Cycle, a natural pathway in which essential elements are recycled in the environment,
25. organisms that make their own food,
26. Factor, Anything that contains a population’s size and slows or stops it from growing,
27. break down dead tissue using biochemical reactions instead of ingestion,

2. The variety of life in an area,
5. Occurs when an individual leaves a population,
6. Limiting Factor, A factor whose effects on the growth of a population is dependent on the number of individuals in that population,
8. Limiting Factor, A factor that has an effect on a population’s growth regardless of the number of individuals in that population,
9. consume decomposing plant and animal tissues,
10. Capacity, A species’ average population size in a particular habitat,
15. Level, A position in a food chain, food web, or ecological pyramid,
17. Energy Sources, Sustainable energy that can be used over and over again,
19. the study of relationships between living organisms and the interactions of organisms with their environment,
20. Community, A balanced stable community of plants, animals, and their environment,
21. organisms that will eat plant and animal material,
22. a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment,