Ecology

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Across
  1. 3. a larger organism that harbors a smaller organism
  2. 5. The part of the Earth where living things exist
  3. 7. organisms that are killed and eaten by other organisms
  4. 11. organism that cannot make its own food and eats other plants and animals
  5. 13. a linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another
  6. 15. animal that eats plants
  7. 16. organisms that make their own food
  8. 19. an organism that mostly eats decaying biomass such as meat or plants
  9. 20. organisms that hunt and kill other organisms for food
  10. 21. An individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form
  11. 22. the living components that shape the environment
  12. 25. organisms that can produce its own food
Down
  1. 1. an organism that eats other plants and animals
  2. 2. all of the food chains in a ecosystem
  3. 4. A level or a position in a food chain, a food web, or a ecological pyramid
  4. 6. an organism that breaks down dead plant and animal matter
  5. 8. animal that eats plants and meat
  6. 9. group of organisms that live in the same place
  7. 10. a non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment
  8. 12. plants, animals, and other organisms that live together in the same place
  9. 14. when one organism lives on or in another organism
  10. 17. interacting group of different organisms living in the same place
  11. 18. home of plants, animals, or other organisms
  12. 23. animal that eats meat
  13. 24. The study of the relationships between living organisms and their physical characteristics