Unit 6: Ecosystems Vocab

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Across
  1. 3. Trophic level where organisms make their own food through photosynthesis
  2. 6. What 90% of energy is lost as in the transfer of energy
  3. 7. Organism that eats both plants and animals
  4. 9. Scientific study of interactions among organisms and between organisms and their environment
  5. 10. Organism that eats only animals
  6. 12. Group of similar organisms that can breed and produce fertile offspring
  7. 14. capacity Largest number of individual of a particular species that a particular environment can support
  8. 15. Organism that chemically breaks down dead plants/animals
  9. 17. Assemblage of different populations that live together in a defined area
  10. 18. Physical, or nonliving, factor that shapes an ecosystem
  11. 20. Part of the Earth in which life exists, including land, water, and air or atmosphere
  12. 23. Movement of individuals out of an area
  13. 24. Trophic levels where organism get their energy by eating other trophic level organisms
  14. 25. Groups of individuals of the same species that live in the same area
Down
  1. 1. Any living part of the environment with which an organism might interact
  2. 2. Level that shows each step in a food chain
  3. 4. Organism that gets their energy by eating other organisms
  4. 5. Total amount of living tissue within a given trophic level
  5. 8. Original source of energy that flows through most ecosystems
  6. 11. Growth pattern in which a population’s growth slows and then stops following a period of exponential growth
  7. 13. Growth pattern in which the individuals in a population reproduce at a constant rate
  8. 16. All the organisms that live in a place, together with their non-living environment.
  9. 19. Organism that only eats plants
  10. 21. Movement of individuals into an area occupied by an existing population
  11. 22. Organism that produces their own food