Ecology Vocab Word crossword puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. a field of study that investigates the dynamics of populations, focusing on factors like population size, growth, and interactions with their environment.
  2. 7. an animal that primarily eats plants for sustenance.
  3. 9. a living being, such as an animal, plant, fungus, or bacterium.
  4. 10. the scientific study of organisms and their interactions with each other and their environment.
  5. 12. an organism that hunts, kills, and eats other organisms for food, known as prey.
Down
  1. 1. a group of different populations of living organisms that interact within a specific area.
  2. 3. an animal or person that eats food of both plant and animal origin.
  3. 4. is the scientific study of living things, encompassing their structure, function, growth, origin, evolution, and distribution.
  4. 5. involving interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association.
  5. 6. an animal that is hunted and killed by another animal (a predator) for food.
  6. 8. is a dynamic system where living organisms (biotic factors) interact with their physical environment (abiotic factors).
  7. 11. is a heritable trait, whether behavioral, morphological, or physiological, that has evolved through natural selection and improves an organism's fitness in a given environment.