Across
- 4. The natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism.
- 5. The process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth.
- 10. A group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding.
- 11. The number of different species that are represented in a given community
- 13. The match of a species to a specific environmental condition.
- 14. A species living outside its native distributional range, but which has arrived there by human activity, either deliberate or accidental.
- 15. A region of transition between two biological communities.
- 16. Changes in population or community structures that occur at the boundary of two or more habitats.
- 17. Is able to thrive in a wide variety of environmental conditions and can make use of a variety of different resources.
- 18. A component of biodiversity that generally concerns the range of things that organisms do in communities and ecosystems.
- 19. The variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.
Down
- 1. The total number of genetic characteristics in the genetic makeup of a species.
- 2. A species that normally lives and thrives in a particular ecosystem.
- 3. An animal or plant species that can be used to infer conditions in a particular habitat.
- 6. the number of different species represented in an ecological community, landscape or region.
- 7. A species on which other species in an ecosystem largely depend, such that if it were removed the ecosystem would change drastically.
- 8. Can thrive only in a narrow range of environmental conditions or has a limited diet.
- 9. The variation in the ecosystems found in a region or the variation in ecosystems over the whole planet.
- 12. How close in numbers each species in an environment is.