Across
- 3. Study of past and present distribution of organism's.
- 5. Assemblage of different populations that live together in a defined area.
- 6. Each step in a food chain or food web.
- 7. Structor that is inherited from ancestors but which has lost much or all of its original function.
- 9. The ability of organisms— or, more rarely, populations or species— to survive and reproduce in the environment in which they find themselves.
- 10. Largest number of individuals of a particular species that a particular environment can support.
- 13. The geologically altered remains of a once-living organism and/or its behaviour.
- 19. Adjustment to living in accordance with interpersonal, social, and cultural norms.
- 20. All the organism's that live in a place, together with their nonliving environment.
- 21. A process that results in changes in the genetic material of a population over time.
- 23. Network of complex interactions formed by the various organism's in an ecosystem.
- 25. A pattern of behavior in which animals travel from one habitat to another in search of food, better conditions, or reproductive needs.
- 26. An interaction between organisms or species in which both require a resource that is in limited supply.
- 27. Groups of individuals of the same species that live in the same area.
- 28. Factor that causes population growth to decrease.
Down
- 1. Process by which organism's that are most suited to their environment survive and reproduce most successfully.
- 2. Structures that are similar in different species of common ancestors.
- 3. A graphical representation of the energy found within the trophic levels of an ecosystem.
- 4. Part of Earth in which life exists, including land, water, and air or atmosphere.
- 8. Non-native species whose introduction causes, or is likely to cause, economic harm, environmental harm, or harm to human health.
- 11. Body parts that share a common function, but not an evolutionary history.
- 12. Group of similar organism's that can breed and produce fertile offspring.
- 14. Any kind of green plant.
- 15. A defense mechanism or tactic that organisms use to disguise their appearance, usually to blend in with their surroundings.
- 16. Group of ecosystems that share similar climates and typical organism's.
- 17. A relationship between organisms that strive for the same resources in the same place.
- 18. The similarity of one organism (the mimic) to another (the model) that enhances the mimic's fitness through its effect on the behavior of a third party, the operator.
- 21. The study of the development of the anatomy of an organism to its adult form, provides evidence for evolution as embryo formation in widely-divergent groups of organisms tends to be conserved.
- 22. The movement of genes into or out of a population. Geneticdrift
- 24. Series of steps in an ecosystem in which organism's transfer energy by eating and being eaten.