Environmental Science Crossword
Across
- 4. A graph showing the likelihood of survival within a group or population by age
- 5. A group of individuals that interbreed and have fertile offspring
- 7. A characteristic of the environment that restricts population growth
- 9. The pattern of population growth where population increases by a fixed percentage each year
- 11. The number of individual organisms present in a population at a given time
- 12. The members of a species in an area
- 14. All of the population in a particular area
- 17. Nonliving parts of an ecosystem
- 20. The pattern of population growth in which exponential growth is slowed and finally stopped by limiting factors
Down
- 1. The seasonal movement by people into and out of a given area
- 2. The living parts of an ecosystem
- 3. The regions of the surface, atmosphere, and hydrosphere of the earth (or analogous parts of other planets) occupied by living organisms
- 6. The number of individuals in a population per unit area
- 8. The largest population a given environment can support
- 10. The natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism
- 13. The movement of individuals away from a given area
- 15. The proportion of males to females in a population
- 16. A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
- 18. The movement of individuals into a given area
- 19. The relative number of organisms of each age within a population