VOCABULARY FOR ECOSYSTEMS PART 2

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Across
  1. 2. An organism that is killed and eaten by another organism
  2. 6. A relationship in which one organism lives on or in a host and harms it
  3. 8. The process by which a gas changes to a liquid
  4. 11. the act of an organism feeding on dead organic matter and breaking it down into simpler substances
  5. 14. an interaction between two or more living things in which they are said to work together
  6. 15. A relationship between two species in which both species benefit
  7. 17. that fills the cracks and spaces in underground soil and rock layers
  8. 18. Any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches Earth’s surface
  9. 19. Animal or plant on which or in which another organism lives
  10. 20. A close relationship between two species that benefits at least one of the species.
  11. 22. An interaction in which one organism kills another for food
  12. 23. two different organisms surviving together in one environment
Down
  1. 1. An animal that hunts other animals for food
  2. 3. The change of a liquid to a gas
  3. 4. An organism that lives on or in a host and causes harm to the host
  4. 5. cycle: The transfer of nitrogen from the atmosphere to the soil, to living organisms, and back to the atmosphere
  5. 7. Conversion of nitrates in to nitrogen gas
  6. 9. The process by which water is lost through a plant’s leaves
  7. 10. water that flows over the ground surface rather than soaking into the ground
  8. 12. Interaction among organisms that feign for the same resource in an ecosystem
  9. 13. cycle: The continuous process by which water moves from Earth’s surface to the atmosphere and back
  10. 16. A relationship between two organisms in which one organism benefits and the other is unaffected
  11. 21. cycle: The organic circulation of carbon from the atmosphere into organisms and back again