Ecology Vocab Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. role or position of an organism in its environment
  2. 5. both organisms benefit
  3. 6. organism that must eat to obtain energy
  4. 7. the variety of life in an area determined by the # of species
  5. 10. cycle that includes burning of fossil fuels
  6. 12. model representing many interconnected food chains
  7. 15. each step in a food chain or food web
  8. 16. type of growth model represented by carrying capacity
  9. 17. large group of ecosystems that share same climate
  10. 18. type of succession that does not have any topsoil
  11. 19. one organism benefits at the others expense
  12. 20. a biological community and all of the abiotic factors
Down
  1. 2. species that is changing conditions on earth by its activities
  2. 3. organisms that obtain energy from the sun
  3. 4. the max # of individuals an environment can support
  4. 6. and area why an organism lives
  5. 8. cycle where plants contribute through transpiration
  6. 9. study of relationship among organisms and their environment
  7. 11. living factors in an organism’s environment
  8. 13. a single species that share the same location
  9. 14. a thin layer around Earth that supports life