Ecology

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Across
  1. 6. The position that an organism occupies in a food chain, food web, or energy pyramid
  2. 8. A group of organisms living together in a certain area
  3. 10. The place and surroundings where an organism normally lives
  4. 12. An organism that eats only plants
  5. 13. A characteristic that helps an organism survive in its environment
  6. 16. The role that an organism plays in its environment
  7. 18. Eat the secondary consumers
  8. 19. An animal that is hunted, killed and eaten by a predator
  9. 20. All the members of one species that live in one area
  10. 21. An organism that can make its own food
  11. 24. An organism that eats only other consumers
  12. 27. Eat the producers, which makes them herbivores in most communities
  13. 28. The plant life in an area
  14. 29. Eat the primary consumers, which makes them carnivores
Down
  1. 1. A consumer that eats both plants and meats
  2. 2. The part of the ecosystem that is not alive and has never been alive
  3. 3. Many food chains put together to show how energy flows through the ecosystem
  4. 4. The part of an ecosystem that is alive
  5. 5. A predator at the top of a food chain that is not preyed upon by any other animal
  6. 7. The order in which animals feed on plants and other animals
  7. 9. Something in an environment that keeps the population of an organism from increasing as much as it could
  8. 11. A plant and animal community that covers a large part of the Earth
  9. 14. The animal life in an area
  10. 15. The study of how living things interact with one another and their environment
  11. 17. A graphical model of energy flow in a community.
  12. 22. All the living and nonliving things in an area and their interactions
  13. 23. An organism that breaks down dead matter and returns nutrients to the soil
  14. 25. An animal that hunts, kills, and eats other animals
  15. 26. An organism that survives by eating producers or other consumers in its ecosystem