Autumn Maltba - Ecology Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 3. Only eats plants
  2. 6. Individual living thing
  3. 8. All of the food chains in an ecosystem
  4. 11. The natural home/environment of a plant/animal
  5. 13. Only eats meat
  6. 14. An interacting group of various species in a shared location
  7. 15. Organisms that hunt and kill other organisms for food
  8. 16. Larger organism that harbors a smaller organism and usually gets hurt
  9. 19. Animals that are killed and eaten by other animals
  10. 20. Organisms that make their own food
  11. 21. An organism that eats other plants/animals for energy and nutrients
  12. 23. Studying interactions between organisms
  13. 24. Position of an organism in the food chain
Down
  1. 1. Eats both plants and animals
  2. 2. All of the same organisms of a certain type/species
  3. 4. Living components of an organism
  4. 5. An organism (often fungi) that breaks down dead organisms and puts nutrients back into the environment
  5. 7. An organism that mostly consumes decaying biomass, such as meat or rotting plants
  6. 8. A linear sequence of organisms based on which animals eats the other
  7. 9. Part of Earth where living things exist
  8. 10. Non-living parts of an ecosystem that help shape its environment
  9. 12. An organism that produces its own food using light, water, and carbon dioxide
  10. 17. Organism that can't produce its own food
  11. 18. An smaller organism that lives on/in another organism and benefits by causing its host pain
  12. 22. Area where plants, animals and other organisms work together to create life