Limiting Factors Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 3. Factors, Living organisms in an ecosystem.
  2. 5. Compete for food, water, space, sunlight.
  3. 8. A substance within an environment that is needed for a organism for growth and reproduction.
  4. 12. Evolved not to compete.
  5. 13. Controlled by both density dependent and independent factors.
  6. 14. Factor, Environmental factor that has the ability to restrict the growth, distribution, and abundance of a population.
  7. 16. Group of organisms that belong to the same species and live in a given area.
  8. 19. The development of a organism increases and reproduces faster which increase the population.
  9. 20. Parasites that live off their hosts and weaken them which causes diseases.
Down
  1. 1. When one species eats another.
  2. 2. A community of living organisms and non living parts that are apart of the environment.
  3. 4. Controlled by limiting factors.
  4. 6. Crowding and stress example.
  5. 7. Factors, Non-living parts in an ecosystem.
  6. 9. Disasters, Density-Independent Limiting Factor Example.
  7. 10. Dependent LF, Factors that operate more strongly on the larger populations.
  8. 11. A environmental limiting factor.
  9. 15. Population size does not affect the factor.
  10. 17. Capacity, The number of organisms that an ecosystem can sufficiently support
  11. 18. and Stress, Certain amount of space needed and can lead to a low birth rate.