4th quarter summary

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Across
  1. 2. the science of naming and classifying organisms
  2. 5. species going out of an environment
  3. 7. all of the factors that a species needs to survive, stay healthy, and reproduce
  4. 10. Producer
  5. 13. when an organism feeds on another
  6. 15. a partially enclosed body of water
  7. 16. factors living things
  8. 20. the maximum number of individuals in a population that the environment and support.
  9. 24. any large, extremely dry area of land with sparse vegetation
  10. 25. an interacting group of various species in a shared/ common location
  11. 26. a species that plays an important role on an ecosystem
  12. 27. uses chemicals as an energy source
  13. 30. animals that require very unique resources.
  14. 33. zone similar to pelagic zone
  15. 34. taxonomic group of closely related species with a common ancestor
  16. 36. part of earth in which life exists including lands, water, air or atmosphere
Down
  1. 1. most inclusive taxonomic group, larger than kingdom
  2. 3. the study of the interactions among living things, and between living things and their surroundings
  3. 4. grows along shallow nutrient rich clear cold water rocky shorelines, mostly on the Pacific coast
  4. 6. permanently frozen layer of the Earth's surface
  5. 8. species that use similar niches in different habitats or locations
  6. 9. an individual living thing
  7. 11. a group of the same species that lives in one area
  8. 12. an organism that eats dead or decaying plants or animals as food.
  9. 14. area of ocean that extends from the low-tide line out to the edge of the continental shelf
  10. 17. evergreen forest in cool, northern latitudes
  11. 18. one organism benefits, the other is unharmed
  12. 19. the assortment, or variety, of living things in an ecosystem
  13. 21. an underwater plain on the deep ocean floor, usually found at depths between 3000 and 6000 m.
  14. 22. a region of land that drains into a body of water
  15. 23. microscopic organisms that live in watery environments, both salty and fresh
  16. 28. all aspects of the area in which an organism lives.
  17. 29. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of the species
  18. 31. organisms that have many unique molecular traits
  19. 32. a major regional or global community of organisms
  20. 35. consists of all the food chains in a single ecosystem