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Across
  1. 4. An organism doing the hunting
  2. 5. An organism that cannot manufacture its own food; instead obtains its food and energy by taking in organic substances; all animals. protozoans, fungi and most bacteria
  3. 7. A non-living organism
  4. 8. Organisms in a environment in the maximum population size of species that can sustain indefinitely, given the food, habitat, water and other necessities in a environment
  5. 11. Place or position
  6. 13. Are heterotrophs that obtain nutrients by consuming detritus.
  7. 14. An autotrophic organism mainly a plant; first trophic level in the food chain
  8. 15. The conversions of nitrates and other compound containing nitrogen into nitrogen gas
  9. 17. The process that converts nitrogen in the atmosphere into compounds in the soil that are useful to a variety of organism
  10. 19. A living organism
  11. 20. The environmental factor that is of predominant importance in restricting the size of a population
  12. 22. The amount of energy consumed from the level under it; getting lower and lower the higher you get up
  13. 24. An individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form
  14. 26. Carbon interacting with the environment and going through the process of photosynthesis and making oxygen for us and the getting it back from decomposition or fossil fuel
  15. 27. Producers, primary consumers, secondary consumers, tertiary, quaternary consumers, predators. all depending on the level lower
  16. 29. An animal or plant on or in which a parasite or organism lives
  17. 30. Are organisms of an ecological food chain that receive energy by consuming other organisms.
  18. 31. The levels in a food chain dividing the different consumers from each other
  19. 32. A system of interlocking and interdependent food chains.
  20. 33. An organism that is able to form nutritional organic substances from simple inorganic substances such as carbon dioxide.
  21. 34. An organism taking over another which can be on the outside or inside a host; one organism is benefiting and the other is getting hurt
  22. 35. Interaction between two different organisms living in close physical association, typically to the advantage of both
  23. 36. Decomposers are organisms that break down dead or decaying organisms, and in doing so they carry out the natural process of decomposition.
Down
  1. 1. A group of one organisms in an area
  2. 2. A group of various species in a area
  3. 3. Exist at the same time or in the same place
  4. 6. A decrease in population
  5. 9. Organisms fighting for resources in a environment
  6. 10. Depending on one another organism and working together; working together to get what they need and both benefit
  7. 12. An organism being hunted
  8. 16. The natural home or environment of an animal, plant, and other organism
  9. 18. The series of processes by which nitrogen and its compounds are interconverted in the environment and in living organisms, including nitrogen fixation and decomposition
  10. 21. One individual group of one organism
  11. 22. A community of living organisms interacting with non-living things in a environment
  12. 23. The branch of biology that deals with the relations of organism to one another and to their physical surrounding
  13. 25. One organism depending on another and the other doesn't really care about them; one is benefiting and the other doesn't care.
  14. 28. Evolution is the process where groups of organisms work or act together for common or mutual benefits