Ecology Quiz
Across
- 2. animals that need to eat to obtain energy & matter
- 7. natural change that takes place within a community
- 9. eat both meat and plants
- 10. complex interconnected food chains
- 12. nonliving factors in a ecosystem
- 16. pyramid showing flow of energy
- 17. use photosynthesis to make their own food
- 18. plant eaters
- 19. the molecule that provides all organisms with a source
- 20. sexual reproduction , sperm fertilizes egg, offspring has half of each parents' chromosomes
Down
- 1. organisms that are at the bottom of the energy pyramid
- 3. converting light energy to chemical energy
- 4. asexual reproduction by simple cell division, offspring is a clone
- 5. living organisms in a ecosystem
- 6. point at which population becomes stable
- 8. ancient prokaryotic organisms found in extreme conditions
- 11. prokaryotic organisms such as true bacteria
- 13. consumers that eat other organisms
- 14. organisms that consume dead organisms
- 15. meat eaters