Across
- 2. All the individuals of a species that live in one place at a time.
- 5. Animals that eat other animals.
- 8. Not living.
- 9. Potential. In ideal conditions, all organisms could live long enough to reproduce.
- 13. An interaction where one species consumes another.
- 14. An animal which only feeds on dead organic material.
- 15. All the living organisms in a given area as well as their non-living physical environment.
- 16. Animals that only eat plants.
- 18. An interaction among living things where one species benefits at the expense of another.
- 21. Web Interconnection of food chains.
- 22. A group of interacting populations that live in the same geographic area at a time.
- 23. Organisms that make their own food.
- 24. Selection A natural process resulting in the evolution if organisms best adapted to their environment.
- 25. Factor Factors that restrict the number, distribution or reproduction of the population.
Down
- 1. Living.
- 3. A trait that better helps an organism survive in its environment.
- 4. Chain Series of steps in an ecosystem in which organisms transfer energy by eating and being eaten.
- 6. An interaction among living things where two organisms compete for the same resources.
- 7. An unlikely interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association.
- 10. An interaction among two living things where one species benefits from the relationship, and the other is not affected.
- 11. Organisms that cannot make their own food.
- 12. Organisms sharing common characteristics and are capable of interbreeding to produce fertile offspring.
- 17. Capacity The number of individuals in a population that the environment can successfully support.
- 19. An interaction among living things where both species benefit from the relationship.
- 20. Branch of biology that deals with the relations of organism to one another and to their physical surroundings.