Across
- 4. of ten, amount of energy passed on in an ecosystem from trophic level to trophic level
- 5. also called heterotrophs
- 7. the part of Earth that supports life
- 8. the interaction between the community(biotic) and the physical environment(abiotic) in an area
- 9. levels, each step in the food chain
- 14. break down organic matter
- 16. feed on plant and animal remains and other dead matter
- 17. one single organism of a species
- 20. a group of populations that interact and live in the same area
Down
- 1. factors, nonliving chemical or physical properties that affect organisms
- 2. can capture energy and turn it into food
- 3. eat plants
- 6. a group of organism of the same species
- 10. autotrophs are _______, creating food for other organisms in the ecosystem
- 11. eat animals
- 12. eat both plants and animals
- 13. organisms that rely on other organism for their energy and food supply
- 15. a large group of similar ecosystems in a specific region
- 18. factors, living factors that affect other organism
- 19. chain, a sequence of what organisms eat
