Across
- 5. combination of resources that a species is adapted to exploit
- 6. parasite benefits from host
- 8. diagram of tropic structure
- 10. ycle cycle depending on predator/prey populations
- 13. 2 species may not occupy same niche in same ecosystem for too long
- 17. one organism benefits and other is unaffected
- 18. capacity largest population of a species that an environment can support
- 19. organism that consume plants
- 20. predator species consumes a prey species
Down
- 1. both species benefit
- 2. lowlands near equator with intense sunlight and rainfall
- 3. the rise and fall of reproduction due to optimal conditions
- 4. meat eaters
- 7. total quantity of living matter at each tropic level
- 9. growth by a percentage
- 11. each level receives 1/10 of energy from the level below
- 12. nutrititonal relationships among species of an ecosystem
- 14. rate at which new biomass forms
- 15. combination of exponential and linear
- 16. group of similar ecosystems