Ecological Relationships

12345678910111213141516171819
Across
  1. 2. The maximum number of organisms that an environment can support due to limited resources?
  2. 3. Animals that eat primarily meat
  3. 5. A system of interlocking and interdependent food chains.
  4. 6. A type of symbiosis that is beneficial to both organisms involved
  5. 7. Plants and algae that produce their own food through the process of photosynthesis
  6. 10. Organisms that can't carry out photosynthesis and has to eat on other organisms
  7. 13. Herbivores that feed on producers
  8. 14. Any living thing that has an effect on an ecosystem.
  9. 15. A non-living thing in an ecosystem
  10. 17. A biological community of interacting populations of organisms and their physical environment.
  11. 18. A diagram that shows the transfer of food energy from one organism to the next organism
  12. 19. Animals that eat both plants and meat
Down
  1. 1. The struggle between members of the same species or different species for limited resources
  2. 3. A type of symbiotic relationship in which one organism benefits while the other is neither helped or harmed
  3. 4. The number of individuals per unit geographic area, for example, number per square meter.
  4. 8. A close long term of relationship between two organism of different species
  5. 9. An organism, such as a plant or algae, that uses photosynthesis to store energy (for their own consumption)
  6. 11. Any animals that feed on an herbivore or primary consumer
  7. 12. The role of an organism in an ecosystem
  8. 13. A type of symbiosis between two species of plants or animals in which one benefits at the expense of the other, sometimes without killing the host organism
  9. 16. Animals that eat primarily plants