Chapter 18: introduction to Ecology

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Across
  1. 2. the "living" components of the environment.
  2. 5. the thin volume of Earth and its atmosphere that supports life.
  3. 10. all organisms interact with other organisms in their surroundings and with the nonliving portion of their environment.
  4. 14. includes all the members of a species that live in one place at one time.
  5. 15. These type of producers make their own food; includes plants and bacteria.
  6. 16. all living things depend on.
  7. 17. a living thing.
  8. 19. most living things live here.
Down
  1. 1. for an ______ to be healthy, it has to have lots of different kinds of plants and animals.
  2. 3. lions, cobras, and praying mantises are this type of consumer.
  3. 4. eat producers
  4. 6. the study of the interactions between organisms and the living and nonliving components of their environment.
  5. 7. all the different types of plants and animals in an ecosystem.
  6. 8. unlike autotrophs, these can not make their own food.
  7. 9. example is a vulture; feeds on "garbage" of an ecosystem.
  8. 11. fish, turtles, plants, algae, and bacteria in the pond describe this term.
  9. 12. producers capture _ _ _ _ _ _ from the sun to make food.
  10. 13. a single pathway of feeding relationships among organisms in an ecosystem that results in energy transfer.
  11. 16. bears and humans are examples of this type of consumer.
  12. 18. the nonliving factors of an environment.