Ecology Vocab Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. A graphic representation of mortality patterns
  2. 4. Population that grows without limit (ex. humans)
  3. 6. Community plus all of the abiotic factors in the environment(ex. all of the deer, insects, plants, birds, rocks, water, and weather in one field)
  4. 8. Multiple ecosystems that share similar characteristics on different parts of the planet (ex. desert, wetlands, arctic desert)
  5. 13. Population that grows rapidly at first then levels off shortly (ex. animals that have a lot of infant death)
  6. 15. Things that lead to the growth or loss of a population
  7. 16. Measures the number of individual organisms in a defined space
  8. 17. Living or once living (ex. plants, animals, fungi)
  9. 19. Competition within the same species (ex. lion v lion for food)
  10. 21. Competition against different species (ex. lion v tiger for food)
  11. 22. Aspects of an environment that limit the size a population can reach (ex. biotic or abiotic)
Down
  1. 1. The spatial distribution of organisms in a population
  2. 3. The first species to help an ecosystem restart (ex. lichens, small grasses, moss)
  3. 5. The increase in accumulation of a toxic substance as it is passed from one organism to another (ex. a crab eats something that has a small number of toxins in it, but the bird that eats the crab is more affected by the toxin)
  4. 7. Multiple populations of different organisms living together (ex. all of the deer, insects, birds, and plants in one field)
  5. 9. Formation of a brand new ecosystem from nothing (ex. volcanoes cause everything to be covered in rock and the ecosystem must start from nothing)
  6. 10. Formation of an ecosystem starting with plants (ex. a forest fire kills everything but the grass so the ecosystem has to evolve from there)
  7. 11. Non-living or never were alive (ex. rocks, weather, natural disasters)
  8. 12. Multiple organisms of the same species living together (ex. deer in a field)
  9. 14. The species that hold the ecosystem together; it is critical for the survival of all other species in the ecosystem (ex. lions in the sahara)
  10. 18. All of the living things and organisms need and do within their habitat (ex. a lion needs small animals to eat, and it helps let the smaller animals grow)
  11. 20. The variety of life in an area (ex. different species and types of animals in one area)