Organisms and their environment terms

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Across
  1. 2. An interacting group of various species in a common location
  2. 5. Non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment
  3. 9. Step in a nutritive series, or food chain, of an ecosystem
  4. 14. graphical representation designed to show the biomass or bioproductivity at each trophic level in a given ecosystem
  5. 17. Organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals
  6. 18. An individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form
  7. 20. Organism that eats other plants or animals for energy and nutrients
  8. 21. The total amount of water on a planet
  9. 23. Animals whose primary food source is plant-based
  10. 24. Group of organisms that can reproduce with one another in nature and produce fertile offspring
  11. 26. All of the food chains in an ecosystem
Down
  1. 1. Group of individuals of the same species living and interbreeding within a given area
  2. 3. organisms that make their own organic nutrients (food)
  3. 4. Living component of an ecosystem
  4. 6. Animals that eat other animals
  5. 7. Biological material derived from living, or recently living organisms
  6. 8. The sequence of transfers of matter and energy in the form of food from organism to organism
  7. 10. Community or group of living organisms that live in and interact with each other in a specific environment
  8. 11. Study of how organisms interact with one another and with their physical environment
  9. 12. Organisms that are unable to make their own energy, and instead rely on the consumption and digestion of producers
  10. 13. Organism that feeds on nonliving organic matter known as detritus at a microscopic level
  11. 15. The layer of air that surrounds the Earth and is comprised mainly of Nitrogen and Oxygen
  12. 16. Global ecosystem composed of living organisms (biota) and the abiotic (nonliving) factors from which they derive energy and nutrients
  13. 19. Organism that regularly consumes a variety of material, including plants, animals, algae, and fungi
  14. 22. Organism that breaks down dead organic material
  15. 25. All the living and non-living factors affecting an organism and ultimately determining its form and survival