vocab words
Across
- 2. an organism that eats both plants and animals
- 3. web: a diagram that shows the feeding relationships between organisms in an ecosystem
- 6. a relation between two species in which both species benefit.
- 7. an organism that is killed and eaten by another organism
- 8. an area that is periodically underwater or whose soil contains a great deal or moisture
- 12. the part of Earth where life exists
- 14. describes the nonliving parts of the environment. Biotic: describes living factors in the environment.
- 16. a community of organisms and their abiotic, or nonliving, environment
- 17. the shallow zone of a lake or pond where light reaches the bottom and nurtures plants
- 18. zone: the zone of a pond or lake that extends from the littoral zone
- 19. the study of the interactions of organisms with one another and with their environment.
- 20. a relationship between two species in which one specie
- 21. pyramid: a triangular diagram that shows an ecosystem’s loss of energy, which result as energy passes through the ecosystem’s food chain.
- 24. tiny producers that float near the surface of the ocean.
- 25. a type of vegetation that includes broad leaved evergreen shrubs.
- 26. a large region characterized by a specific type of climate and certain types of plants and animal communities
- 28. a relationship in which two different organisms live in close association with each other.
- 29. a treeless plain found in the Arctic
- 30. a treeless wetland ecosystem where plants such as grasses grow
Down
- 1. A region that that is dominated by grasses
- 4. a region that has little or no plant life
- 5. an organism that eats animals
- 9. zone: the zone of a lake or pond below the open-water zone, where no water reaches
- 10. all of the populations of species that live in the same habitat and interact with each other.
- 11. an organism that eats only plants
- 13. an organism that kills and eats all or part of another organism.
- 15. a relationship between two organisms in which one organism benefits and other is unaffected
- 22. a group of organisms of the same species that live in a specific geographical area.
- 23. a wetland ecosystem in which shrubs and trees grow
- 25. capacity: the largest population that an environment can support at any given time.
- 27. an area where freshwater mixes with salt water from the ocean