Ecolgy

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Across
  1. 3. / a large naturally occurring community of flora and fauna occupying a major habitat, e.g. forest or tundra.
  2. 5. / An autotrophic organism capable of producing complex organic compounds from simple inorganic molecules through the process of photosynthesis
  3. 8. / the animal being hunted; The organisms being eaten.
  4. 9. / organism on the food chain that depends on autotrophs (producers) or other consumers for food, nutrition, and energy
  5. 10. / an organism that mostly feeds on plants.
  6. 14. / an organism that eats plants and animals.
  7. 15. / interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association, typically to the advantage of both
  8. 16. Web / consists of all the food chains in a single ecosystem
  9. 17. / mutual dependence between things
  10. 20. / the strength and vitality required for sustained physical or mental activity.
  11. 24. / he role an organism plays in a community
  12. 25. / a group of organisms that can reproduce with one another in nature and produce fertile offspring.
  13. 26. / a type of symbiotic relationship where all species involved benefit from their interactions.
  14. 28. / Association between two different organisms wherein one benefits at the expense of the other
  15. 29. / the area and resources used by a particular species (the habitat of a species) or an assemblage of animals and plants together with their abiotic environment
Down
  1. 1. / made up of the parts of Earth where life exists
  2. 2. / A group of individuals of the same species within a community
  3. 4. / an action that benefits another or a group of others
  4. 6. / an organism that mostly eats meat, or the flesh of animals.
  5. 7. / an organism, especially a soil bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate, that decomposes organic material.
  6. 11. Factor / a living organism that shapes its environment
  7. 12. / the direct or indirect interaction of organisms that leads to a change in fitness when the organisms share the same resource.
  8. 13. Chain / outlines who eats whom
  9. 18. / the study of the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and their physical environmen
  10. 19. / an organism that primarily obtains food by the killing and consuming of other organisms
  11. 20. / an ecological community comprised of biological, physical, and chemical components, considered as a unit.
  12. 21. / a relationship between individuals of two species in which one species obtains food or other benefits from the other without either harming or benefiting the latter.
  13. 22. Factor / a non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment.
  14. 23. / the ecological process by which energy is transferred from living animal to living animal based on the behavior of a predator that captures and kills a prey before eating it
  15. 27. / an interacting group of various species in a common location.