Ecology

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Across
  1. 1. Living components of an environment
  2. 5. Organism that creates its own food or energy
  3. 8. Surface, atmosphere, and hydrosphere of the earth
  4. 9. Hierarchical levels in an ecosystem
  5. 10. Network of links in a food web
  6. 12. Smallest group that can evolve
  7. 14. Organism that decomposes organic material
  8. 18. Organism that can't create its own food or energy
  9. 19. Biological community of interacting organisms
  10. 20. An organism that only eats animals
  11. 22. Larger organism that houses smaller organism
  12. 23. Home of an organism
  13. 24. An organism that eats both plants and animals
Down
  1. 2. Organism that eats dead things
  2. 3. Interlocking and interdependent food chains
  3. 4. Organism that eats other plants or animals for energy and nutrients.
  4. 6. Individual animal, plant, or life form
  5. 7. Nonliving components of an enviornment
  6. 11. An organism that only eats plants
  7. 12. Eats prey
  8. 13. Organism that makes its own energy using chemicals (hint: troph)
  9. 15. Group of populations
  10. 16. Eaten by predator
  11. 17. Study of relationships of organisms and their habitats
  12. 21. Parasite