Organisms and Their Relationships
Across
- 1. physical aria in which an organism lives
- 3. close mutualistic, parasitic, or commensal association between two or more species that live together
- 4. large group of ecosystems that share climate and have similar types of communities
- 5. symbiotic relationship in which both organisms benefit
- 10. group of organisms of the same species that occupy the same geographic place at the same time
- 11. any living factor in an organism's environment
- 13. symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits at the expense of another organism
- 14. biological community and all the nonliving factors that affect it
- 15. scientific study of all the interrelationships between organisms and their environment
Down
- 2. any nonliving factor in an organism's environment
- 6. organism's ability to survive biotic and abiotic factors
- 7. role, or position, of an organism in its environment
- 8. symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits and the other organism is neither helped nor harmed
- 9. biotic or abiotic factor that restricts the number, distribution, or reproduction of a population within a community
- 12. relatively thin layer of Earth and its atmosphere that supports life
- 13. act of one organism feeding on another organism