Life Histories Ecology Crossword Puzzle

QUESTIONS LIST: endemic: _ species exist only in a specialized area and are susceptible to extinction, community: _ ecology focuses on patterns of species diversity and interactions, background: _ extinction rate occurs slowly and one species at a time, habitat: the environment where an organism lives, k strategists: species whose populations fluctuate at or near the carrying capacity (k) of the environment in which they reside, landscape: _ ecology explains how ecosystems, communities, and populations are distributed in geographic regions, niche: an organism's functional role in community, mass: _ extinction events kill massive numbers of species at once, carrying: _ capacity is the maximum population size an environment can sustain, specialist: organisms with a specific niche, generalist: organisms with a broad niche, ecosystem: _ ecology studies biotic and abiotic components to see patterns, population: _ ecology studies the distribution and abundance of individuals, biosphere: the total living things in the areas they inhabit, strategists: lives in unstable and unpredictable environments, ecology: study of interactions among organisms and their environment.