Across
- 4. The place that an organism lives
- 7. the relationship between species that is only beneficial to one but does not affect the other
- 8. changes that occur quickly in an ecosystem
- 11. the first step of ecological succession on barren rocky land
- 14. the variety of life. key to preservation of a healthy world
- 15. all the biotic and abiotic components that interact within an area at once.
- 16. the balance of an ecosystem
- 17. the rise in Earth's temperature and its effects
- 18. the draining away of water from a surface into a body of water
- 19. when two species both benefit from a relationship
Down
- 1. the interaction between species that share limited resources
- 2. an area of land that separates water flowing to different bodies of water
- 3. changes slowly occur in an ecosystem
- 5. the variation of species in an ecosystem
- 6. organisms that are more adapted to their environment survive and pass on the gene
- 9. the change in a community over time
- 10. succession occurring after a major disturbance but intact soil
- 11. the relationship between two species where one lives on or in the other at its considerable expense
- 12. non-living things
- 13. living things
