Interaction of Living Things Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. Plants grow without soil, receiving nutrients directly from water.
  2. 4. Animals are ------------and need food from other sources.
  3. 6. Eat other animals.
  4. 8. These are the nonliving things in an ecosystem, like air, water, soil, rocks, and light.
  5. 9. Eat both plants and animals.
  6. 11. Eat plants.
  7. 13. acts as a niche in a forest ecosystem to aerate and break down plant matter in the soil.
  8. 15. The special role an organism plays in the ecosystem.
  9. 16. Organisms that hunt for their food
Down
  1. 1. Made up of all living (biotic) and nonliving (abiotic) things.
  2. 2. A scientist who studies insects
  3. 5. Organisms introduced to a new ecosystem that cause harm.
  4. 7. its toxic and acts as an example of invasive species
  5. 10. Plants are considered --------------because they make their own food.
  6. 11. The place in an ecosystem where an organism lives.
  7. 12. These are the living things in an ecosystem, like plants, animals, fungi, and bacteria.
  8. 14. Organisms that are hunted