Across
- 5. biotic/abiotic characteristics of where animals lives
- 7. population growth with a carrying capacity
- 8. level in a food chain/web, producers through tertiary consumers
- 11. population growth when there are no limiting resources
- 14. intimate associations between/among species
- 16. remove this type of species and biodiversity drops
- 19. the total variety of organisms in an ecosystem
- 23. when species exert selective force on eachother
- 25. cannot make own food, must feed
- 26. nightly drop in metabolism to prevent starvation
- 27. range where fitness is maximal
Down
- 1. inactive state to withstand heat/drying
- 2. symbiosis where both gain
- 3. adaptation where benign pretend to be dangerous
- 4. bright warning colorations of animals
- 6. interactions within a species
- 9. symbiosis where one gains other unaffected
- 10. interactions between/among species
- 11. generates own body heat, birds/mammals
- 12. factor that regulates a population
- 13. symbiosis where one benefits at a cost to the other
- 15. all habitat attributes needed by a species to survive
- 17. gets body heat from environment, fish/reptiles
- 18. interactions among organisms & environment, study of
- 20. a successional stage between pioneer and climax
- 21. adaptation to be "invisible" to predators
- 22. can make own food from inorganic source
- 24. the production of autotrophs