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Across
  1. 3. a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding.
  2. 5. change, a change in the statistical distribution of weather patterns
  3. 7. Chain, The sequence of organisms through which energy moves in an ecosystem
  4. 8. an assemblage of populations of different species, interacting with one another.
  5. 11. The change that living things go through to fit better with their environment.
  6. 13. Factors, an environmental factor that tends to limit population size.
  7. 15. To journey between different areas at specific times of the year.
  8. 16. a group of organisms of the same species living in the same area
  9. 19. A distinct ecological community of plants and animals living together in a particular climate.
  10. 20. all the living components of an ecosystem
  11. 21. web, depicts feeding connections in an ecological community.
  12. 22. an ecosystem that is a land-based community of organisms
  13. 24. includes the living things interacting in an area along with the non-living environment.
  14. 26. the presence in or introduction into the environment of a substance or thing that has harmful or poisonous effects.
  15. 28. plants and animals that break down dead plants and animals into organic material
  16. 30. an animal that gets food from killing and eating other animals.
Down
  1. 1. dominated by trees
  2. 2. the tendency toward a relatively stable equilibrium between interdependent elements, especially as maintained by physiological processes.
  3. 4. the fact or process of a species, family, or another group of animals or plants becoming vanishing
  4. 6. an animal that is hunted or killed by another animal for food
  5. 9. an animal or person that eats food of both plant and animal origin.
  6. 10. identifies as the array of resources, physical and biotic factors, present in an area that allows the survival and reproduction of a particular species
  7. 12. position or function of an organism in a community of plants and animals
  8. 14. organisms of an ecological food chain that receive energy by consuming other organisms
  9. 17. nonliving components of an ecosystem
  10. 18. The part of the earth in which life can exist
  11. 23. an animal that feeds on plants.
  12. 25. organisms in an ecosystem that produce biomass from inorganic compounds
  13. 27. a barren area of land where little precipitation occurs and consequently living conditions are hostile for plant and animal life
  14. 29. feeds on its prey