Across
- 2. self-contained habitat where living and non-living things interact
- 3. one organism consumes the other
- 5. plant or bacterial life forms of a region or geological period
- 6. the animal life of a region or geological period
- 7. one organism exploits the other which acts as a host
- 8. the role the species plays in the functioning of the ecosystem
- 12. where one species benefits and the other neither benefits nor is harmed
- 13. range the ecosystem that a species inhabits
- 14. association between two organisms in which one is adversely affected
Down
- 1. where both species benefit from the association
- 3. same species interacting
- 4. where species work together for a greater result
- 9. one organism is harmed or inhibited and the other is unaffected
- 10. the consumption of plants by an organism
- 11. survival and reproduction ability of an individual
- 15. the plants and animals of a specific region or period, or the total aggregation of organisms in the biosphere
- 16. a group of organisms formally recognized as distinct from other groups