Ecosystem Crosswords

2. An animal that naturally preys on other animals.
3. Animals that are killed and eaten by other animals.
8. Living factors in the environment.
9. The natural environment of a plant or animal.
10. An interconnected chain of organisms that indicates which are predators and which are prey in relation to one another.
11. An organism that eats both plants and meat for energy.
14. An organism that eats plants for energy.
16. The struggle between two organisms for the same resources
17. An organism that breaks down organic material.

1. A network of interconnected food chains in an ecological community.
3. All the organisms that constitute a specific group or occur in a specified habitat.
4. Nonliving factors in the environment.
5. An organism capable of synthesizing its own food
6. An organism that uses the sun’s energy for producing food
7. A system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment
12. The region occupied by a group of interacting organisms.
13. An organism that consumes another organism as food for energy.
15. The study of how living (biotic) and nonliving (abiotic) parts of the environment interact with each other.
16. An organism that eats meat for energy.