Ecology Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. earth's region covered in living organisms
  2. 7. only eats plants
  3. 8. eats other plants or animals for energy
  4. 12. number of organisms living in the same area who can breed
  5. 14. larger organisms harboring a smaller one
  6. 16. any living thing functioning as an individual
  7. 17. eats both plants and meat
  8. 19. cannot make their own food
  9. 20. only eats meat
  10. 22. one organism lives off the other to ones expense
  11. 23. produce own food
  12. 24. living components in the environment
Down
  1. 1. place it occupies on food web
  2. 2. consumes the remains of other animals
  3. 4. web all food chains in ecosystem
  4. 5. breaks down dead material
  5. 6. hunted and eaten by other animals
  6. 9. hunts and eats other animals
  7. 10. make their own food themselves
  8. 11. community of living organisms
  9. 13. various species interacting in a common location
  10. 15. chain living things linked one feeding onto the next
  11. 18. study of relationships between organisms and how they interact in their environment
  12. 21. natural home for living thing
  13. 25. nonliving components in the ecosystem