Ecosystems Vocab

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Across
  1. 2. organism's role, or job, in its habitat
  2. 3. organism that obtains food by eating other organisms
  3. 6. something that happens over and over in the same way
  4. 7. study of living things and their environments
  5. 10. bacteria that can use nitrogen in soil to make nitrogen compounds
  6. 14. area where a type of animal or plant population is found
  7. 15. living and nonliving things in an environment, together with their interactions
  8. 16. all the populations that live in a certain place
  9. 17. to act upon each other
  10. 18. animal that eats only dead organisms
Down
  1. 1. organism that makes its own food
  2. 3. largest amount of a population that can be supported by an area
  3. 4. organism that breaks down the wastes or remains of other organisms
  4. 5. large region of the earth with particular plant and animal communities
  5. 8. conditions in the environment that puts limits on where an organism can live
  6. 9. group of the same kind of organism living in a certain place
  7. 11. everything that surrounds an organism
  8. 12. pyramid way of showing how energy moves through the food chain
  9. 13. place where an organism lives