Terrestrial Ecology Crossword

A study of connections in nature. How organisms interact with one another and with their nonliving environment.
The number of different species it contains combined with the abundance of individuals within each of those species.
Species that serve as early warnings of damage to a community or an ecosystem.
Help determine the types and numbers of other species in a community thereby helping to sustain it.
An expansion of a keystone species that can create and enhance habitats that can benefit other species in a community.
A group of individual organisms of the same species living within a particular area.
The population of all species living and interacting in an area.
The place where an organism or a population lives.
The total way of life or role of a species in an ecosystem.
Determines how energy and nutrients move from one organism to another through the ecosystem.
Both species benefit
Plant roots absorb ammonium ions and nitrate ions for use in making molecules such as DNA, amino acids, and proteins.
Ammonia is converted to nitrite, then to nitrate.
This is the first step of the nitrogen cycle where specialized bacteria convert gaseous nitrogen to ammonia that can be used by plants.