Ecosystems and Invasive Species

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Across
  1. 2. plants & animals that take over an ecosystem and hurt other animals and plants
  2. 6. to hurt or break something
  3. 9. a community of living organisms (like plants, animals, and microbes) interacting with their non-living environment (like air, water, and soil)
  4. 10. non-living, has never been alive
  5. 12. an organism that eats plants and animals for energy
  6. 13. living, or was once alive
  7. 15. the variety of all living things
  8. 16. plants & animals that naturally live in an ecosystem
  9. 17. a living thing
  10. 18. the network of the flow of energy in an ecosystem (ex: consumers eat producers and other consumers)
  11. 19. an organism that breaks down dead matter and returns nutrients to the soil
Down
  1. 1. something that is hard to fix
  2. 3. a way to fix a problem
  3. 4. an organism that makes its own food
  4. 5. individuals moving out of a population
  5. 7. the specific job a species has in its ecosystem
  6. 8. a group of the same organism living in one place
  7. 11. individuals moving into a population
  8. 14. a large area of the world that has similar weather, plants and animals