Ecology
Across
- 5. Interactions between species that strive for the same limited resources
- 7. The natural home or environment of a plant, animal, or other organism
- 9. An organism that can create it's own food
- 12. The movement of energy from one form to another
- 13. A colorless, odorless gas
- 14. The process by which plants, algae, and some bacteria use sunlight to make food
- 15. An organism that cannot produce its own food
- 16. A model that shows the flow of energy from one trophic, or feeding, level to the next is an ecosystem
- 17. The mass of living biological organisms in a given area or ecosystem at a given time
- 18. Animals that are killed and eaten by other animals
- 19. The movement of substances from regions of lower concentration to regions of higher concentration by the use of energy
Down
- 1. Total amount of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere by an individual
- 2. A community of living organisms interacting with their non-living physical environment within a specific geographic area
- 3. Organism that hunts and kills other organisms for food
- 4. The variety of all life forms on Earth
- 6. An organism that causes ecological or economic harming a new environment where it is not native
- 8. An organism that breaks down or eats Decaying material for its energy source
- 10. The range of different genetic variations within a species population
- 11. The long term rise in Earth's average surface tempature
- 20. Long term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns