Ecology Vocab

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Across
  1. 7. An organism that harbors another organism within its body
  2. 8. Another word for producers
  3. 10. An organism that is hunted and eaten by another organism
  4. 12. The natural environment where an organism lives
  5. 13. Each level of an energy pyramid
  6. 14. Study of the environment
  7. 17. Anywhere life can be found (The circle of life)
  8. 19. An organism that feeds on dead or decaying organic matter
  9. 21. An organism that eats both plants and meat
  10. 23. An organism that only eats meat
  11. 24. Eat the food
Down
  1. 1. A living thing (other than organism)
  2. 2. The study of how parasites interact with their environment and other organisms
  3. 3. A community of living organisms
  4. 4. An organism that only eats plants
  5. 5. A group of individuals of the same species living in a specific area
  6. 6. Make their own food
  7. 9. Another word for consumers
  8. 10. An organism that hunts and eats other organisms
  9. 11. An organism making organic nutrients available to the ecosystem (by decaying)
  10. 15. A living thing
  11. 16. The sequence of transfers of matter and energy in the form of food from organism to organism.
  12. 18. A non living thing
  13. 20. A complex network of interconnected food chains
  14. 22. All the populations of different species that live and interact within a ecosystem