What Goes Up Must Go Down

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Across
  1. 1. the average weather pattern of a region that lasts over a long period of time.
  2. 5. all the interacting organisms that live in the environment, also the non-living parts of the environment that affect the organisms.
  3. 8. a square that marks off a specific area for study.
  4. 9. an organism that creates its own food instead of eating other organisms for food.
  5. 12. same thing as a ecoclimate that share the same geography, climate and air.
  6. 14. the place where the organism lives.
  7. 16. a symbiotic relationship between 2 different types of organisms where 1 partner benefits and the other doesn't lose or gain anything.
  8. 17. a scientist that studies the interactions between organisms and their environment.
  9. 18. living things in the environment, such as humans, plants and animals.
  10. 20. an animal that eats other animals.
  11. 22. an organism that eats rotting plants or animals.
  12. 23. a method used by ecologists to estimate population sizes in ecosystems.
  13. 24. an organism that lives on/in the other organism and feeds on it.
  14. 26. symbiotic relationship between 2 different types of organisms, and each organism benefits from the relationship.
  15. 27. non-living things in the environment, such as water, soil or air.
  16. 28. an organism that eats the food made by its producer.
Down
  1. 2. the study of the organisms interacting with each other and their enviroment.
  2. 3. a group of the same species living together in 1 ecosystem.
  3. 4. an animal that eats only plants.
  4. 6. a group or organisms that can successfully mate together and reproduce.
  5. 7. 10 different natural regions in British Columbia that have been mapped out and described by biologists.
  6. 10. a group made up of all the interacting populations that live in an area.
  7. 11. an organism that a parasite lives and feeds off of.
  8. 13. 2 species that live closely together in a relationship that lasts over time.
  9. 15. breaks down dead waste.
  10. 18. large region on earth that has particular types of plant life, and has about the same tempurature and precipitation.
  11. 19. a symbiotic relationship with 2 different types of organisms where 1 partner benefits and the other is harmed.
  12. 21. the location where the organism lives, and the role it plays in the ecosystem.
  13. 23. a word used to describe a relationship between 2 species that lives closely together and the relationship lasts over time.
  14. 25. an organism that eats both plants and animals.