Across
- 5. the region of the earth that encompasses all living organisms plants animals and bacteria
- 9. an organism that can produce its own food using light water carbon dioxide or other chemicals
- 10. the long term predictable atmospheric conditions of a specific area
- 11. an organism that often feeds on and breaks down dead plants or animals
- 15. animals that are killed and eaten by other animals
- 17. an organism that eats plants and animals
- 18. an organism that lives on or in a host organism and gets its food from or at the expense of its host
- 19. a living thing such as an animal a plant a bacterium or a fungus
Down
- 1. an organism that mostly feeds on plants
- 2. a non living part of an ecosystem that shapes its environment
- 3. an animal that kills and eats other animals
- 4. the natural home or environment of a plant animals or organism
- 6. organism that consume other organisms for energy
- 7. living or once living components of a community
- 8. plants animals and other organisms as well as weather and landscape work together to form a bubble of life
- 10. an organism that mostly eats meat or the flesh of animals
- 12. a group of organism living in the same place at the same time
- 13. the largest geographic biotic unit a major community of plants and animals with similar life forms
- 14. groups of organisms in specific place or time
- 16. an organism that harbors another organism inside or near their body in a symbiotic relationship
