Ecosystem Quiz

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Across
  1. 1. Non-living chemical and physical parts of the environment.
  2. 5. An organism that eats other organisms for energy.
  3. 7. A system of interdependent food chains in an ecosystem.
  4. 8. Relating to or resulting from living organisms.
  5. 9. An animal that hunts other animals for food.
  6. 11. An animal that eats only other animals.
  7. 12. The variety of life in a particular habitat or ecosystem.
  8. 15. A species on which other species in an ecosystem largely depend.
  9. 16. A biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment.
  10. 17. An animal that is hunted and eaten by predators.
Down
  1. 2. An animal that eats both plants and animals.
  2. 3. An organism, like a plant, that makes its own food.
  3. 4. An animal that eats only plants.
  4. 6. A series of organisms each dependent on the next as a source of food
  5. 10. The natural home or environment of an organism.
  6. 13. A species that pushes out native species
  7. 14. An organism that breaks down dead matter.