Across
- 6. called biological diversity
- 7. diversity/variety of habitats, communities and ecological processes in the biosphere
- 8. exclusion principle/Principles that state that not two species can occupy the same niche in the same habitat at the same time
- 10. services/the benefits for humans that are provided by healthy ecosystem
- 11. necessity of life, such as water, nutrients,light,food,or space
- 14. relationship in which one organism benefits and the other is neither helped nor harmed
- 16. succession/type of succession that occurs in an area that only partially destroyed by disturbance
- 18. relationship in which both s[ecies benefit from the relationship
- 19. of an organism to survive and reproduce under circumstances that differ from their optimal conditions
- 20. where an organism lives including the biotic and abiotic factors that affect it.
Down
- 1. symbiotic relationship in which one organism lives on or inside another organism and harms it
- 2. succession/succession that occurs in an area in which no trace of previous community is present
- 3. ability to recover after a disturbance;the ability to deal with change and move on
- 4. species/single species that is not usually abundant in a community yet exerts strong control on the structure of a community
- 5. diversity/sum total of all the different forms of genetic information carried by a particular species, or by all organisms on Earth
- 7. succession/series of gradual changes that occur in a community following a disturbance
- 9. in which two species live close together
- 12. range of physical and biological conditions in which an organism lives and the way in which a organism uses those conditions
- 13. species/first species to populate an area during succession
- 15. total of the variety of organisms in the
- 17. diversity/number of different species that make up a particular area
