Unit 8 Review: Interdependence Among Living Organisms

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Across
  1. 4. Called a “niche”; part that an organism plays in their ecosystem
  2. 7. Relationship where one organism lives on or inside another organism
  3. 9. Science that studies how favorable traits are passed to future generations
  4. 11. No soil exists in this type of succession; occurs on these surfaces
  5. 12. Succession that restores ecosystems after a natural event
  6. 13. Carnivores are known for eating other ____________________
  7. 15. Type of consumer that eats producers
  8. 17. Animal that the predator catches and eats
  9. 19. Another word for a consumer that eats different organisms
  10. 22. Type of consumer that eats secondary consumers
  11. 25. Relationship where both organisms benefit
Down
  1. 1. Organisms that make their own food by converting the Sun’s energy
  2. 2. Living and nonliving components of an environment
  3. 3. Consists of many overlapping food chains in an ecosystem
  4. 5. Primary consumers that consume producers
  5. 6. Living factors within an environment
  6. 8. Another word for a producer that makes its own food
  7. 10. Organisms that cannot make their own food; must eat other organisms
  8. 14. Pioneer species are the _______________ to populate an area
  9. 16. The amount of energy that is found at the bottom of an energy pyramid
  10. 18. Decomposers use these types of chemicals to break down dead organisms
  11. 20. Abiotic factors are considered _____________________
  12. 21. One organism in this relationship is neither helped nor harmed
  13. 23. Arrow that show the flow of this in a food chain or food web
  14. 24. Physical features or behaviors that help an organism survive and reproduce