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