Ecology SS Week 2

1. resilience The capacity of an ecosystem to absorb, withstand, or recover from disturbances
5. The struggle between organisms to survive in a habitat with limited resources
6. Factors Living parts of an ecosystem
9. species Non-native species disrupting local ecosystems.
10. An interaction in which one organism kills another for food.
11. The removal of trees faster than forests can replace themselves.
14. A relationship between two species in which both species benefit
16. Succession The orderly, gradual, and predictable process of change in species composition within a biological community over time.
19. A source or supply or support
22. The surroundings or conditions in which a person, animal, or plant lives or operates.
23. Where an organism lives
24. Capacity Largest number of individuals of a population that a environment can support
26. A movement from one country or region to another

2. Overall weather in an area over a long period of time
3. A group of individuals that belong to the same species and live in the same area
4. Consists of all biotic and abiotic factors on the planet.
7. A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
8. Factors Nonliving components of environment.
12. Growth Growth pattern in which the individuals in a population reproduce at a constant rate
13. Release of harmful materials into the environment
15. The growth of cities
16. A term that typically describes a species that no longer has any known living individuals.
17. All the different populations that live together in an area
18. The variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.
20. A living thing
21. A disorder of structure or function in a human, animal, or plant, especially one that has a distinctive group of symptoms
25. Warming An increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere