Unit 1 Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. how evenly distributed species are within a community
  2. 3. an organisms' role in the environment
  3. 4. different types of plants and animals in biomes
  4. 5. 1st trophic level; includes green plants
  5. 8. the variables that stay the same throughout the experiment
  6. 10. the ability of an ecosystem to maintain a steady state
  7. 11. the maximum number if individuals that the environment can carry
  8. 14. human caused
  9. 15. living factors
  10. 16. weather
  11. 17. rainfall
  12. 19. 2nd trophic level; eats the first trophic level
  13. 20. 3rd trophic level; has no natural predators and at the top of a food chain
Down
  1. 1. one of a species
  2. 2. all of the living and nonliving factors in an area
  3. 6. the ability to recover from an ecosystem disturbance
  4. 7. populations living together
  5. 9. educated guess to the testable question
  6. 12. a group of the same species
  7. 13. a large geographical area on Earth with similar climate, plants and animals
  8. 14. nonliving factors
  9. 18. the number of different species living in an ecosystem