Ecology Vocab

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Across
  1. 5. Organism that can produce its own food using light,water,or other chemicals
  2. 9. Organism that eats other plants/animals for nutrients
  3. 10. All food chains in a single ecosystem
  4. 11. Organism that only eats meat
  5. 13. Organism that breaks down dead organic material
  6. 14. Non-living part of ecosystem that shapes the environment
  7. 17. Organism that can't produce its own food and must eat others for energy
  8. 19. individual living thing
  9. 20. Organism that harbors another inside or near the body
  10. 21. Organism that eats plants and animals
  11. 22. Number of inhabitants in a region
Down
  1. 1. Place on Earth where land, water, and air interact
  2. 2. Organism that lives by killing and eating other animals
  3. 3. Community of organisms that live + interact together in a specific environment
  4. 4. Organism that feeds on decaying organic matter
  5. 6. Organisms that are killed or eaten by other animals
  6. 7. Living part of ecosystem that shape up the environment
  7. 8. Organisms that make their own food
  8. 10. Linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats the other
  9. 12. Group of organisms that live together
  10. 15. Position of an organism in the food chain
  11. 16. Study of living organisms
  12. 18. Natural home of an organism
  13. 20. Organism that only eats plants
  14. 22. When one organism lives off the other