Ecosystems

2. A group of organisms sharing common characteristics that interbreed and produce fertile offspring
5. Dry areas which are usually hot in the day and cold in the night
6. Group of organisms of the same species living in the same area at the same time
7. Group of populations living and interacting with each other in a common habitat
8. Non-living
10. Living
13. How an ecosystem changes in time
15. How an ecosystem is changing along an environmental gradient
17. Community and the physical environment it interacts with
18. Also called consumers
19. total gain in energy or biomass per unit area per unit time by green plants after allowing for losses to respiration
20. Organism that predator kills
21. Conversion of energy into biomass over a given period of time
23. lives in or on another organism called the host
25. Obtain energy from dead organisms
28. Neither species benefits, both species suffer
30. Animal eating plan

1. Set of abiotic and biotic conditions and resources in which an organism or population responds
2. Has to do with animals
3. One species kills the other for food
4. Distance north or south from the equator
6. Process in which green plants make their own food from water and carbon dioxide
8. Also called producers
9. Species adapted to extreme conditions
11. Obtain energy from dead organisms
12. The environment in which species normally lives
14. Conversion of organic mater into carbon dioxide and water in all living organisms
16. Feed on both plants & animals
22. Has to do with plants
24. Both species benefit by interacting
26. Flow of energy from one organism to the next
27. Total gain in energy or biomass per unit area per unit time by green plants
29. Network of interrelated food chains