Across
- 1. set of components that function and interact in some regular way.
- 3. breakup of larger habitat areas into smaller areas
- 4. Group of interbreeding individuals of the same species, usually living together in a group.
- 8. The process by which peers evaluate their work and scientific knowledge advances as scientists question and confirm one another's data and hypotheses.
- 10. sequence of organisms in which each organism is a source of nutrients or energy for the next level of organisms.
- 11. Any heritable trait that gives an individual some advantage over other individuals in a given population
- 12. Role that a species plays in an ecosystem
- 14. species with so few individual survivors that the species could soon become extinct
- 15. carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus, and water cycles
- 18. interdisciplinary study of how humans interact with the environment
- 20. biological science that studies how living things interact with the living and nonliving parts of their environment
- 21. Gradual change in species composition in a given area.
- 22. Process by which a body of water gains nutrients
- 23. zone of Earth where life is found
- 26. Physical or mathematical representation of a structure or system.
- 27. Process by which a chemical becomes more concentrated as it moves up a food chain
- 28. Significant rise in the in extinction rates well above the background extinction rate.
- 29. Variety of life on Earth
Down
- 2. designation for an organism based on its methods of making or finding food and feeding behavior
- 5. species that has enough remaining individuals to survive in the short term
- 6. The greatest baseball team of all time.
- 7. anything that has mass and takes up space
- 9. Given pattern of atmospheric conditions in an area over long periods of time.
- 13. Maximum population of a species that a habitat can sustain indefinitely
- 16. Drainage basin
- 17. Factor that is particularly important relative to other factors in regulating the growth of a population.
- 19. One or more communities of different species interacting with one another and with the chemical and physical factors of their nonliving environment
- 24. Type of matter with a unique set of properties that cannot be broken down into simpler substances by chemical means
- 25. Process that results in the formation of a new species