Ecology Vocabulary SOL Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. Factor restricting population growth
  2. 4. Organism making its own food
  3. 7. Organism eating other organisms
  4. 10. Organism breaking down dead matter
  5. 13. Succession without soil
  6. 14. Multiple populations living together
  7. 15. Gradual ecosystem change
  8. 16. Community interacting with environment
Down
  1. 1. the largest and most biodiverse an area will grow to be
  2. 2. Diagram showing energy loss
  3. 4. lichen and other organisms that break down rock and start an ecosystem
  4. 5. Succession with soil already present
  5. 6. Balance within ecosystems
  6. 8. Group of same species in an area
  7. 9. one path of energy transfer in an ecosystem
  8. 11. Maximum population environment supports
  9. 12. Interconnected food chains