Across
- 4. A graphical representation showing the relationship between different organisms in an ecosystem
- 8. Things that eat both plants/animals.
- 9. Shows how each living thing gets its food. Some animals eat plants and some animals eat other animals.
- 12. A community of living organisms like plants or animals in a particular area.
- 14. An organism, especially a fungus, or invertebrate, that decomposes organic material.
- 15. A group of organisms that can reproduce with one another and produce offspring.
- 18. Organisms that eat other organisms for nutrients, can't produce food by themselves.
- 21. Things that eat plants exclusively
- 22. Things that eat animals exclusively
Down
- 1. A level or a position in a food chain, a food web, or an ecological pyramid.
- 2. Organic material from plants and animals that is used as a source of energy
- 3. A group of individuals that belong in the same species.
- 5. Everything in all/highest level in ecology.
- 6. Like a Heterotroph, it must obtain energy by eating other organisms.
- 7. The process by which food is made by bacteria or other living things using chemicals as an energy source, typically without sunlight.
- 10. The process by which plants use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to create oxygen and energy in the form of sugar.
- 11. A group of ecosystems with the same climate and communities.
- 13. A system of interlocking and interdependent food chains.
- 16. Also like an Autotroph, an organism that can create its own food using energy from sunlight.
- 17. Assembly of different populations.
- 19. Organisms that can produce their own food from natural sources.
- 20. The study of how living organisms interact with each other and their environment.
