Across
- 5. an organism that eats other plants or animals for energy and nutrients.
- 6. all of the environmental factors and interspecies relationships that influence the species.
- 9. a linear sequence of organisms through which nutrients and energy pass as one organism eats another.
- 10. organism that breaks down dead organic material
- 11. a living organism that shapes its environment.
- 14. an organism that can produce its own food using light, water, carbon dioxide, or other chemicals.
- 15. pertains to any of the organisms in most trophic levels in a food chain
Down
- 1. a detailed description of the species within a community and their relationships with each other.
- 2. animal with wide food preferences, which can eat both plant and animal matter.
- 3. a non-living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment.
- 4. an organism that mostly consumes decaying biomass, such as meat or rotting plant material.
- 7. a person who oversees film production.
- 8. animals adapted to eat plants.
- 12. an organism that mostly eats meat, or the flesh of animals
- 13. is a place where an organism makes its home
