natural resource puzzle
Across
- 3. happens when a climax community or intermediate community is impacted by a disturbance
- 6. represents feeding relationships within a community
- 11. a mechanism of evolution
- 12. nonliving organisms in an ecosystem
- 15. a type of symbiotic relationship where all species benefit from their interactions
- 16. essential for the processes that support all life
- 18. living organisms of an ecosystem
Down
- 1. a community of interacting organisms
- 2. used to identify different organisms, based the organism's observable traits
- 4. the study of the relationships between living organisms
- 5. happens when a new patch of land is created or exposed for the first time
- 7. an organism that feeds on other organisms
- 8. Association between two different organisms wherein one benefits at the expense of the other
- 9. a diverse group of organisms that interact with each other in a common location
- 10. a group of individuals of the same species living and interbreeding within a given area
- 13. a relationship between individuals of two species in which one species obtains food or other benefits from the other without either harming or benefiting the latter
- 14. an organism that creates its own food or energy
- 17. regions of the hydroshere and atmosphere occupied by organisms