Across
- 3. A living organism that shapes its environment
- 5. make their own food, which creates energy for them to grow
- 9. Anything that constrains a population's size and slows or stops it from growing
- 10. A biological community of interacting organisms AND their physical environment
- 11. Consists of all the members of a species that live in a particular area
- 12. Organism that breaks down dead organic material
Down
- 1. Place where an organism makes it home - meets all the environmental conditions an organism needs to survive
- 2. web All of the food chains in an ecosystem
- 4. An interacting group of various species in a common location
- 6. chain The sequence of transfers of matter & energy in the form of food from organism to organism
- 7. Unable to make their own energy & instead rely on the consumption & digestion of other organisms to survive
- 8. An individual animal, plant, or single-celled life form