Ecology Introduction Vocab

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Across
  1. 2. An organism that feeds and breaks down dead plant/dead animals
  2. 6. A living organism that changes the environment
  3. 7. A network of overlapping food chains showing the relationships between a community
  4. 10. Consumer that eats a mix of both plants and animals
  5. 11. Consumer that eats other animals
  6. 13. Regions of the Earth that are occupied by organisms
  7. 15. An organism that eats dead/rotting things
  8. 16. Organism that produces food through external energy sources
  9. 20. an individual living thing that has organs
  10. 22. Organisms that consume other organisms to get energy
  11. 23. the study of the relationships of organisms and the environment around them
  12. 24. group of populations that take up the same area at the same time
Down
  1. 1. group of organisms that takes up an area
  2. 3. Consumer that eats plants
  3. 4. Organisms that make their own food
  4. 5. A nonliving thing that is part of the environment
  5. 7. A single path of the food web
  6. 8. The organism on which the parasite feeds on
  7. 9. An organism that eats other plants or animals for energy. A consumer
  8. 12. The organism that is being hunted down by the predator
  9. 14. A small organism that harms a larger organism
  10. 17. The organism that hunts down the prey
  11. 18. The position some organism is on the food chain/food web
  12. 19. The environment where an organism lives
  13. 21. A community of organisms and the environment around them