Ecosystems Key Language Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST:

• biotic : living factors that affect a population
• niche : the role of an organism in an ecosystem.
• biodiversity : the variety of ecosystems and species in an area, includes species and genetic diversity.
• species : the type of diversity referring to all of the different organisms found in an ecosystem.
• abiotic : non-living factors affecting a population
• genetic : all of the alleles of all of the genes in the genome of a species _ diversity.
• community : all the living organisms found in a particular ecosystem.
• ecosystem : self-contained interacting community of organisms, and the abiotic factors that affect them.
• population : the total number of organisms found in an ecosystem
• habitat : the place where an organism, population or community lives.
• trophic : the level of the food web in a community that the organism can be said to be, _ level
• endemic : a species that is found nowhere else.