year 9 ecology
Across
- 4. the production portion of carbon dioxide in an ecosystem's carbon flux
- 6. made up of the parts of earth where life exists
- 7. the process by which plants use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to create oxygen and energy in the form of sugar
- 8. a place where an organism makes its home
- 10. all the inhabitants of a particular place
- 12. devoid of life
- 14. the practice of living as a parasite on or with another animal/organism
- 15. the transfer from matter and energy in the form of food from organism to organism
- 19. something that eats meat AND plants
- 20. organism that breaks down dead organic material
- 24. something that makes, grows, or supplies goods or services for sale
- 25. a social group whose members have something in common
- 26. the study of living things and their environment
Down
- 1. an organism that eats other living things
- 2. a type of symbiotic relationship where all species benefit from their interactions
- 3. a system of interdependant food chains
- 5. a consumer thats eats an animal, that eats and animal that eats plants
- 9. a level in a food chain
- 11. an animal that obtains its nutrition by eating primary consumers and secondary consumers
- 13. a biological community of interacting organisms and their physical environment
- 14. the preying of one animal on others
- 16. something that ONLY eats plants
- 17. when one of two people benefit from their interaction and the other derives
- 18. full of life
- 21. something that ONLY eats meat
- 22. a consumer that eats plants
- 23. an animal that is caught and killed by another for food