Ecology Introduction Vocab

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Across
  1. 2. animals that are killed and eaten by other animals
  2. 6. an organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals.
  3. 10. a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
  4. 13. an individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form.
  5. 14. organisms that hunt and kill other organisms for food.
  6. 16. the regions of the surface, atmosphere, and hydrosphere of the earth
  7. 17. a larger organism that harbours a smaller organism
  8. 19. the living components (organisms) that shape up the environment.
  9. 23. each of several hierarchical levels in an ecosystem,
  10. 24. one organism lives on or in the other organism and benefits from it by causing some harm
  11. 25. an organism that eats other plants or animals for energy and nutrients.
Down
  1. 1. an organism that mostly feeds on plants
  2. 3. an organism that mostly eats meat
  3. 4. a particular section, group, or type of people or animals living in an area or country
  4. 5. an organism that cannot produce its own food and must eat other plants and/or animals to get energy
  5. 7. organisms that make their own food
  6. 8. a bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate that feeds on and breaks down dead plant or animal matter
  7. 9. all of the food chains in an ecosystem.
  8. 11. a group of people living in the same place
  9. 12. the branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.
  10. 15. a non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment
  11. 18. the natural home or environment of an organism.
  12. 20. an organism that eats both plants and meat
  13. 21. a linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another.
  14. 22. an organism that mostly consumes decaying biomass, such as meat or rotting plant material