Ecology extra credit
Across
- 2. Orgaanism that can convert sunlight into food
- 4. eats only animal flesh
- 5. shows the flow of energy from one trophic level to the next in an ecosystem
- 7. relationship between two species of plants or animals in which one benefits at the expense of the other
- 8. two organisms in which one benefits and the other is neither benefited nor harmed.
- 10. eats the producers
- 14. living part of an environment
- 16. the living and nonliving parts of an environment
- 17. eats both plants and animals
- 18. the top of the food chain
- 19. environmental factor or variable that can restrict the growth, abundance, or distribution of a population
Down
- 1. breaks down dead decaying matter
- 3. eats only plants
- 6. nonliving part of an environment
- 7. a group of organisms that are the same species
- 9. one single living thing
- 11. interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association
- 12. symbiosis that is beneficial to both organisms involved
- 13. one or more different species living the same area
- 15. a large geographic area characterized by specific climate, plant, and animal life
- 20. interconnecting and overlapping food chains showing feeding relationships within a community