Limiting Factors Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 3. Factors, Living organisms in an ecosystem.
- 5. Compete for food, water, space, sunlight.
- 8. A substance within an environment that is needed for a organism for growth and reproduction.
- 12. Evolved not to compete.
- 13. Controlled by both density dependent and independent factors.
- 14. Factor, Environmental factor that has the ability to restrict the growth, distribution, and abundance of a population.
- 16. Group of organisms that belong to the same species and live in a given area.
- 19. The development of a organism increases and reproduces faster which increase the population.
- 20. Parasites that live off their hosts and weaken them which causes diseases.
Down
- 1. When one species eats another.
- 2. A community of living organisms and non living parts that are apart of the environment.
- 4. Controlled by limiting factors.
- 6. Crowding and stress example.
- 7. Factors, Non-living parts in an ecosystem.
- 9. Disasters, Density-Independent Limiting Factor Example.
- 10. Dependent LF, Factors that operate more strongly on the larger populations.
- 11. A environmental limiting factor.
- 15. Population size does not affect the factor.
- 17. Capacity, The number of organisms that an ecosystem can sufficiently support
- 18. and Stress, Certain amount of space needed and can lead to a low birth rate.