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