Across
- 2. body of water that moves continuously in one direction
- 4. deals with arrays of ecosystems and their arrangement in a geographic region
- 6. living factors in the organism's individual environment
- 8. examines the interactions between species and factors such as predation, competition, disease, and disturbance
- 10. the movement of individuals away from centers of high population density
- 11. concerned with the behavioral physiological and morphological ways individuals interact with the environment
- 12. the global ecosystem
- 14. areas of transition between river and sea
- 15. the scientific study of the interactions between organisms and their environment
Down
- 1. major types of ecological associations that occupy broad geographic regions
- 3. nonliving chemical and physical factors that influence the distribution and abundance of organisms
- 5. studies energy flow and cycling of chemicals among the various abiotic and biotic components
- 7. examines factors that affect population size and composition
- 9. formed by the calcium carbonate skeletons of coral animals
- 13. areas covered with sufficient water to support aquatic plants
- 16. long term prevailing weather conditions in a particular area