EVS Ch 4 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 1. The maximum ability to produce offspring in ideal conditions
  2. 3. Graph that shows how the likelihood of death varies with age
  3. 6. group of organisms that interbreed and produce fertile offspring
  4. 8. all living things and their physical environment living in a specific area
  5. 9. describes the relative numbers of organisms of each age within a population
  6. 13. The number of individuals within a population per unit area
  7. 15. A characteristic of the environment that limits population growth
  8. 16. How organisms are arranged within an area
  9. 17. The number of individual organisms present in a given population at a given time
  10. 19. When a population increases by a fixed percentage each year
  11. 20. The largest population size a given environment can sustainably support
Down
  1. 2. The arrival of individuals from outside a given area
  2. 4. The departure of individuals from a given area
  3. 5. all populations in a specific area
  4. 7. members of a species that live in the same area
  5. 10. place where an organism lives
  6. 11. A population's proportion of males to females
  7. 12. A seasonal movement into and out of an area
  8. 14. How a population's initial exponential increase is slowed and finally stopped by limiting factors
  9. 18. The study of how organisms interact with each other and their environment