Ecology Study Game

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Across
  1. 1. A food chain is ______
  2. 4. Another term for organisms that make their food
  3. 5. How many cycles are there?
  4. 8. Bottom of the pyramid
  5. 12. A food ___ is a network
  6. 17. Decrease of limiting factors = ____ of populations
  7. 19. Organism that eats both plants and animals
  8. 20. The specific role a species performs in its ecosystem
  9. 24. A measure of the number of different species
  10. 26. Name of the species that includes kudzu and lionfish
  11. 27. Process of plants to make food from the sun
  12. 29. Includes evaporation, condensation, precipitation
  13. 31. Niches are always the same
Down
  1. 2. A factor in an ecosystem that was never living
  2. 3. Greenhouse gases are part of this cycle
  3. 5. Cycling of matter within an ecosystem is organized T/F
  4. 6. First group from the levels of organization of life
  5. 7. Common way invasive species are introduced is by _____
  6. 9. Organism is neither is benefited or harmed
  7. 10. Eat other organisms for energy
  8. 11. Habitat destruction and overfishing cause _____
  9. 13. The study of all living things
  10. 14. Human gets lyme disease from a tick
  11. 15. Migration is what type of adaptation?
  12. 16. Fill in the blank: consumer, producer, and _______
  13. 18. Group of organisms that are healthy, fertile & alike
  14. 21. The study of organisms within their environment
  15. 22. A factor in an ecosystem that is living or once living
  16. 23. Relationship where both organisms benefit
  17. 25. Natural environment in which a species lives
  18. 27. Producer is to consumer as predator is to ____
  19. 28. Too much nitrogen in the environment is _______
  20. 30. 10% of energy is passed and 90% of energy is lost as ___