Ecology Vocabulary Review
Across
- 5. populations in a community. Consists of all living and non-living things
- 7. organisms that needs to obtain food
- 8. Factors all living organisms inhabiting the Earth
- 10. is harmful to the local habitat
- 12. a group of organisms of one species living in the same place at the same time that interbreed
- 16. several interacting populations that inhabit a common environment and are interdependent
- 17. Bottom of the food chain
- 19. species A species that has been introduced or is not native to an environment
Down
- 1. organisms that make their own food
- 2. life supporting portions of Earth composed of air, land, fresh water, and salt water
- 3. any interaction between two organisms in which one organism consumes all or part of another organism
- 4. one species benefits and the other is neither harmed nor helped
- 6. one species benefits (parasite) and the other is harmed (host)
- 9. beneficial to both species
- 11. Factors non living organisms
- 13. the role a species plays in a community; its total way of life
- 14. Species those that normally live and thrive in a particular community
- 15. any unicellular or multicellular form exhibiting all of the characteristics of life
- 18. they must ingest food
- 20. The study of relations and interactions between organisms in their environment.