Across
- 4. Where a species lives and what it does for a living.
- 8. Any necessity of life.
- 11. The variety of environmental conditions within which a species can survive and reproduce.
- 14. Disturbance affects an existing community but does not completely destroy it.
- 16. Where many small organisms live in very small parts of a habitat.
- 17. A natural or human system's ability to recover after a disturbance.
- 20. The total of all genetically-based variations.
- 22. A series of somewhat predictable events that occur in a community over time.
- 23. Interdependent relationship between two species.
Down
- 1. Benefits provided by ecosystems to humans.
- 2. No remnants of an older community.
- 3. No two species can occupy exactly the same niche.
- 5. The actual place an organism lives.
- 6. One organism lives inside or on another organism and harms it.
- 7. The variety of habitats, communities, and ecological processes in the biosphere.
- 9. The total of all different forms of genes present in a particular species.
- 10. The number of different species in the biosphere.
- 12. Natural events that disturb areas of varying size.
- 13. Both species benefit.
- 15. First species to colonize barren areas
- 18. Affects the size and distribution of plant populations.
- 19. Plays a vital and unique role in maintaining structure, stability, and diversity in an ecosystem.
- 21. One organism benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed.
