Across
- 1. Living components of an environment
- 5. Organism that creates its own food or energy
- 8. Surface, atmosphere, and hydrosphere of the earth
- 9. Hierarchical levels in an ecosystem
- 10. Network of links in a food web
- 12. Smallest group that can evolve
- 14. Organism that decomposes organic material
- 18. Organism that can't create its own food or energy
- 19. Biological community of interacting organisms
- 20. An organism that only eats animals
- 22. Larger organism that houses smaller organism
- 23. Home of an organism
- 24. An organism that eats both plants and animals
Down
- 2. Organism that eats dead things
- 3. Interlocking and interdependent food chains
- 4. Organism that eats other plants or animals for energy and nutrients.
- 6. Individual animal, plant, or life form
- 7. Nonliving components of an enviornment
- 11. An organism that only eats plants
- 12. Eats prey
- 13. Organism that makes its own energy using chemicals (hint: troph)
- 15. Group of populations
- 16. Eaten by predator
- 17. Study of relationships of organisms and their habitats
- 21. Parasite
