Ecology

1. The animal hunted and killed by its predator
2. An animal which kills and eats an animal
5. Part of earth that supports life
8. When 2 or more organisms fight for a resource that is in short supply.
11. The act of killing and eating another animal for food.
15. The position of an organism in a food chain
16. The functional role of an organism
17. A non- living factor
18. Feeding relationship between organisms in which energy is transferred.
20. The wise management of the environment or organisms
22. An organism which feeds on the primary producer.
24. An active physical confrontation between 2 organisms in which only one wins the resource

1. An organism which lives in or on another causing it harm.
3. The decaying of a dead organism
4. An animal that feeds on plants only.
6. An animal that feeds on animals only
7. Interconnected food chains
9. Consumer An organism which feeds on the secondary consumer.
10. Factors relating to the soil
11. An organism which makes its own food
12. The harmful addition to the environment
13. (Place) where a species lives
14. Living (organism’s influence on another organism)
19. An animal that eats both animals and plants.
21. Study of the interaction between organisms themselves and their environment.
23. Organisms and their (interactions with) environment