Ecology

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Across
  1. 5. Make own food
  2. 9. Eat others
  3. 10. All of the foods chains in an ecosystem
  4. 11. Eats only meat
  5. 13. Break down dead organisms and other organic wastes and release inorganic molecules back to the environment.
  6. 14. Non-living factors in the environment
  7. 17. Butterflies, rabbits, grasshoppers, giraffes, and snails, etc
  8. 19. Singular (smallest or at the top of an Taxonomic Hierarchy pyramid)
  9. 20. An organism that harbors another organism, inside or near their body, in a symbiotic relationship
  10. 21. Eats meat and plants
  11. 22. Group of organisms
Down
  1. 1. Part of the earth where living things exist (biggest or the bottom of a Taxonomic Hierarchy pyramid)
  2. 2. An animal that kills and eats other animals.
  3. 3. Area with plants, animals, and other organisms
  4. 4. An animal that feeds on carrion, dead plant material, or refuse.
  5. 6. Animals that are killed and eaten by other animals.
  6. 7. Living factor in the environment
  7. 8. Green plants, small shrubs, fruit, phytoplankton, and algae, etc
  8. 10. Outline of who eats who
  9. 12. Same group or species
  10. 15. Pyramid;that shows the number of steps it is from the start of the chain (ranges from a value of 1 for primary producers to 5 for mammals and humans)
  11. 16. ...is the study of the environment
  12. 18. Provides the organisms that live there with food, water, shelter and space to survive (consist of both biotic and abiotic factors)
  13. 20. Eats only plants
  14. 22. Feeding on plants or animals as a ... (lice on human, ticks on dog, etc)