Unit 4 Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. a non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment.
  2. 3. a group of individuals of the same species living and interbreeding within a given area.
  3. 5. a living organism that shapes its environment
  4. 6. anything that constrains a population's size and slows or stops it from growing.
  5. 7. graphs that show the proportion of a population that survives from one age to the next.
  6. 9. the concentration of individuals within a species in a specific geographic locale.
  7. 10. a species' average population size in a particular habitat.
  8. 11. a factor whose effects on the size or growth of a population vary with the population density.
Down
  1. 1. when a population's per capita growth rate decreases as population size approaches a maximum imposed by limited resources, the carrying capacity
  2. 4. any force that affects the size of a population of living things regardless of the density of the population
  3. 8. when a population's per capita growth rate stays the same, regardless of population size, making the population grow faster and faster as it gets larger.