Ecology Vocab Definitions

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Across
  1. 5. A geographic area where plants, animals, and other organisms, as well as weather and landscape, work together to form a bubble of life.
  2. 6. An organism that eats both plants and animals
  3. 7. An individual living thing that carries on the activities of life by means of organs which have separate functions but are dependent on each other
  4. 11. An organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals
  5. 15. An organism that can not produce its own food and must eat other plants or animals to get energy
  6. 16. Factors- Living or once liveing components of a community
  7. 18. An organisms that eats other plants or animals for energy and nutrients
  8. 19. Level- A level or a position in a food chain, a food web, or an ecological pyramid
  9. 22. Organisms that can make their own food
  10. 23. The relationship between different species in which one organism lives on or in the other organism and benefits from it by causing some harm.
  11. 25. An organism that mostly/always eats meat
Down
  1. 1. An organism, often a bacterium, fungus, or invertebrate that feeds on and breaks down dead plant or animal matter, making organic nutrients available to the ecosystem
  2. 2. Chain- A linear sequence of organisms in which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another
  3. 3. An organism that mostly consumes decaying biomass such as meat or rotting plant material
  4. 4. All the organisms of the same group or species that live in a specific area and are capable of breeding among themselves
  5. 8. Web- All of the food chains in an ecosystem
  6. 9. The region of the earth that encompasses all living organisms: plants, animals and bacteria
  7. 10. Animals that are killed or eaten by other animals
  8. 12. The natural home or environment of a plant, animal, or other organism
  9. 13. Factors- All the non-living factors in an ecosystem
  10. 14. A larger organism that harbours a smaller organism
  11. 17. An interacting group of various species in a common location
  12. 20. An organism that mostly/always feeds on plants
  13. 21. Organisms that hunt or kill other oganisms for food
  14. 24. The branch of biology that deals with the relations of organisms to one another and their physical surroundings