Unit 7 Ecology Vocab

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Across
  1. 2. Movement of individuals into a population
  2. 3. Impact increases with population size
  3. 5. Simplified model that shows a single path for energy flow through an ecosystem
  4. 7. Affects populations no matter their size
  5. 10. Max number of a species an environment can support long-term.
  6. 11. any living factor in an organism’s environment
  7. 15. A nonliving part of the environment
  8. 16. biotic or abiotic factor that restricts the number, distribution, or reproduction within a community
  9. 17. Anything that takes up space and has mass
  10. 18. total mass of living matter at each trophic level
  11. 19. physical area in which an organism lives
  12. 20. biological community and all the nonliving factors that affect it
Down
  1. 1. Movement of matter through the biosphere via living things, chemicals, and geology.
  2. 4. The disappearance of a species when the last of its members die
  3. 6. Nonnative species that can significantly modify or disrupt habitat
  4. 8. One community replaces another due to changing conditions.
  5. 9. Network of connected food chains showing energy and matter flow.
  6. 12. number of diferent species living in a specific area
  7. 13. One benefits, other unaffected.
  8. 14. movement of individuals away from a population