Ecology Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 5. consumer that eats plants
  2. 6. nonliving parts of an organism's habitat or ecosystem
  3. 8. an environment that provides the things a specific organism needs to live and grow and reproduce
  4. 10. living thing that gets its food by eating other organisms
  5. 13. a living thing
  6. 14. organism that hunts
  7. 16. the study of how living things interact with each other and their physical environment
  8. 18. the part of the earth in which life exists
Down
  1. 1. living thing that breaks down dead organisms or their waste
  2. 2. consumer that eats animals
  3. 3. parts of a habitat or ecosystem that are living or used to be living
  4. 4. all the members of one species living in a particular place
  5. 7. consumer that eats plants and animals
  6. 9. the community of organisms that live in a particular area along with their nonliving environment
  7. 10. all the DIFFERENT populations that live together in an area
  8. 11. organism that gets hunted
  9. 12. living organism that makes its own food from the sun
  10. 15. web a diagram that shows a pattern of overlapping food chains in an ecosystem
  11. 17. chain series of events in which one organism eats another and obtains energy