ecology 1

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Across
  1. 2. movement of animals from one region to another, often for reasons like finding food, breeding
  2. 6. A fight between organisms for a common resource
  3. 7. The variety of life forms in one area.
  4. 9. an organism can make its own food through photosynthesis
  5. 11. non living organisms
  6. 13. the maximum number of species that an environment can support over a long time due to amount of resources; water, food, shelter, space
  7. 14. A geographic area where biotic and abiotic factors interact
  8. 15. an observable event that occurs in the natural world, leading to curiosity.
  9. 17. eats other animals or plants, rather than making its own food.
  10. 19. A process, rule or set of instructions
  11. 21. information acquired through observation and experimentation
Down
  1. 1. The ways humans and the natural world co-exist, interact and influence each other across different societies over time.
  2. 3. a plan to conserve a natural place, ecosystem, and/or organism that details how it will be protected with goals and outcomes.
  3. 4. To preserve or protect a space
  4. 5. A factor that limits the growth of a population
  5. 8. an organism that hunts, kills, and eats other organisms for food
  6. 10. a non-native organism that causes harm to the environment, economy, or human health after being introduced to a new ecosystem
  7. 12. Study of relationships between living organisms and their physical environment
  8. 16. the natural environment where an organism lives and that provides the resources it needs to survive
  9. 18. living organisms
  10. 20. an organism that is hunted and killed for food by another organism