Final Exam: Chapters 52 & 54 Review Puzzle

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Across
  1. 1. any strong, short-lived disruption in a community that changes the distribution of living or nonliving resources
  2. 3. the close resemblance of one species to another
  3. 5. well-characterized gene sequence to identify distinct species
  4. 8. is the number of species present in a given community
  5. 9. total genetic information contained within all individuals of a population, species, or group of species
  6. 10. one organisms eats or absorbs nutrients from another
  7. 12. species that are found in a particular area and nowhere else
  8. 15. individuals use the same resources resulting in lower fitness for both
  9. 17. a summary of some or all of the consumption interactions in a community
  10. 18. the ability to survive and produce viable, fertile offspring
Down
  1. 2. all the populations of interacting species living within a defined area
  2. 4. one species benefits but the other is unaffected
  3. 6. species whose numbers have decreased so drastically that it is almost certain to go extinct without effective conservation efforts
  4. 7. ecosystem ______ is the sum of the biological and chemical processes that are characteristic of a given ecosystem
  5. 11. inevitable compromise in adaptation
  6. 13. consumption of plant or algal tissues by herbivores
  7. 14. the tree of life
  8. 16. two species interact in a way that confers fitness benefits to both