Across
- 5. the practice of living as a parasite in or on another organism.
- 7. a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
- 8. physical rather than biological; not derived from living organisms.
- 11. an association between two organisms in which one benefits and the other derives neither benefit nor harm.
- 13. roughly calculate or judge the value, number, quantity, or extent of.
- 14. the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country.
- 18. an animal that naturally preys on others.
- 19. the number or quantity of people or things that can be conveyed or held by a vehicle or container.
- 20. a close, prolonged association between two or more different biological species
- 25. the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.
- 26. the ratio between the number of live-born births in the year and the average total population of that year
- 27. the process through which populations of living organisms adapt and change
- 28. an animal or plant on or in which a parasite or commensal organism lives.
- 29. the number of people per unit of area
Down
- 1. the action or process of adapting or being adapted.
- 2. a relationship in which both species are mutually benefited
- 3. the act of leaving one's own country to settle permanently in another; moving abroad.
- 4. all the inhabitants of a particular town, area, or country.
- 6. an animal that is caught and killed by another for food.
- 9. the ratio of deaths to the population of a particular area or during a particular period of time
- 10. a class of things of the same kind and with the same name
- 11. the activity or condition of competing.
- 12. anything that constrains a population's size and slows or stops it from growing
- 15. a group of people living in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common.
- 16. the branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.
- 17. an organism that lives in or on an organism of another species (its host) and benefits by deriving nutrients at the other's expense.
- 21. the preying of one animal on others.
- 22. the process by which green plants and some other organisms use sunlight to synthesize foods from carbon dioxide and water
- 23. a comfortable or suitable position in life or employment.
- 24. relating to or resulting from living things, especially in their ecological relations.
