Across
- 2. the "living" components of the environment.
- 5. the thin volume of Earth and its atmosphere that supports life.
- 10. all organisms interact with other organisms in their surroundings and with the nonliving portion of their environment.
- 14. includes all the members of a species that live in one place at one time.
- 15. These type of producers make their own food; includes plants and bacteria.
- 16. all living things depend on.
- 17. a living thing.
- 19. most living things live here.
Down
- 1. for an ______ to be healthy, it has to have lots of different kinds of plants and animals.
- 3. lions, cobras, and praying mantises are this type of consumer.
- 4. eat producers
- 6. the study of the interactions between organisms and the living and nonliving components of their environment.
- 7. all the different types of plants and animals in an ecosystem.
- 8. unlike autotrophs, these can not make their own food.
- 9. example is a vulture; feeds on "garbage" of an ecosystem.
- 11. fish, turtles, plants, algae, and bacteria in the pond describe this term.
- 12. producers capture _ _ _ _ _ _ from the sun to make food.
- 13. a single pathway of feeding relationships among organisms in an ecosystem that results in energy transfer.
- 16. bears and humans are examples of this type of consumer.
- 18. the nonliving factors of an environment.