ecology

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Across
  1. 2. a group of interacting populations that occupy the same geographic area at the same time.
  2. 4. one organism benefits at the expense of the other
  3. 7. part of the earth that is biotic
  4. 8. rhymes with paleontology
  5. 9. ability to tolerate factors (a)biotic
  6. 11. both organsisms benefit
  7. 13. one organism benefits; the other is neither helped nor harmed
  8. 15. the role something has in its environment
Down
  1. 1. any a/b factor that restricts distribution of organisms
  2. 2. living things in an organism's environment
  3. 3. act of one organism pursuing another organism for food
  4. 5. is the close relationship that exists when two or more species live together
  5. 6. a single thing that makes up a number at the same place
  6. 7. group of ecosystem that share same climate and communities
  7. 10. nonliving things in an organism's environment
  8. 12. an area where something lives
  9. 14. a biological community and all of the abiotic factors that affect it